Daniel Menaker

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Robert Daniel Menaker (September 17, 1941 – October 26, 2020) was an American fiction writer and editor.[1] He worked with the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton and as a consultant for Barnes & Noble Bookstores. Menaker was a fiction editor at The New Yorker for twenty years. Menaker was born in New York City.

Menaker died on October 26, 2020 from pancreatic cancer at his home in New Marlborough, Massachusetts at the age of 79.[2]

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  1. Lippman, Gary (2014-01-21). "That's Material: An Interview with Daniel Menaker". Paris Review Daily. Retrieved 2016-01-23.
  2. Roberts, Sam (27 October 2020). "Daniel Menaker, Book Editor Who Wrote With Wit, Dies at 79". nytimes.com. The New York Times. Retrieved October 27, 2020.