Daniel Menaker began a 26-year career at The New Yorker as a fact checker in l969, rising through the ranks to become a senior editor specializing in fiction. There he was the first editor to publish such newcomers as Michael Cunningham, Michael Chabon, and Jennifer Egan, and he also worked with well-recognized authors such as Alice Munro, Elmore Leonard, V. S. Pritchett, Stanislaw Lem, Max Frisch, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Pauline Kael.
In l995, he went to Random House as Vice President, Senior Literary Editor. The first novel he edited was the publishing phenomenon Primary Colors by Anonymous.
In 2001, he became Executive Editor at Harper Collins, returning to Random House in 2003 as Editor-in-Chief of the Random House editorial imprints. As Executive Editor-in-Chief, he worked with such authors as Billy Collins, Elizabeth Strout, Gary Shteyngart, Colum McCann, Arthur Philips, Curtis Sittenfeld, Nassim Taleb, Benjamin Kunkel, Reza Aslan, and Sister Helen Prejean.
He is the author of two books of short stories and a novel, The Treatment, which was made into an independent film in 2006. He still contributes humor pieces and book and music reviews to such publications as The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Slate. He left Random House in 2007, to write. He is a judge for the 2008 Story Prize and has recently completed a book about conversation, A Good Talk, which will be published in early 2010. He has also taught graduate writing courses at the City University of New York and UCLA, and was the Editorial Producer and Presenter for the online book program Titlepage (titlepage.tv).
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