Dan Greenburg
| Dan Greenburg | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 20, 1936 (age 80) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Spouse |
Nora Ephron (1967–1976; divorced) Suzanne O'Malley (1980–1998; divorced; 1 child) Judith C. Wilson (1998–present) |
Dan Greenburg (born June 20, 1936) is an American writer, humorist, and journalist. His more than 70 books have been published in 20 languages in 24 countries. His best-selling books for adults include How to Be a Jewish Mother, How to Make Yourself Miserable, Love Kills, Exes, and How to Avoid Love and Marriage. He writes four series of children's books, The Zack Files, Secrets of Dripping Fang, Maximum Boy, and Weird Planet.
He was born in Chicago, Illinois, got his B.F.A. from the University of Illinois and his M.F.A. from U.C.L.A. Raised to be an artist like his father, Greenburg studied design at the University of Illinois. While there he read Catcher in the Rye, which turned him towards being a writer. His first piece of professional writing was "3 Bears in Search of an Author," a retelling of the same story in the voices of J.D. Salinger, Ernest Hemingway, and James Joyce. The piece was published in Esquire Magazine, and Esquire commissioned a sequel: "Hansel and Gretel" in the styles of Vladimir Nabokov, Jack Kerouac and Samuel Beckett.
Dan Greenburg got his B.F.A. degree and moved to Los Angeles, where he received UCLA's first M.F.A. in industrial design. Dissatisfied with industrial design, he spent three years in Los Angeles advertising agencies. Meanwhile, his old editor at Esquire, Ralph Ginzburg had started a new national magazine called Eros and convinced Dan to move to New York and become its managing editor. In New York, Greenburg began to write a satirical non-fiction book entitled How to be a Jewish Mother, which became the bestselling book of 1965 and allowed him to become a full-time author, journalist, and script writer.
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