Meghan Daum

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Occupation Columnist Role Author Name Meghan Daum		Genre Novelist, Essayist Nationality USA Spouse Alan Zarembo

Alma mater Vassar College, Columbia University Education Columbia University School of the Arts (1996), Vassar College Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Books The Unspeakable: And Othe, Selfish - Shallow - and Self, My misspent youth, Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived i, The quality of life report

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Meghan Daum (born 1970 in California) is an American author, essayist, and journalist.

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Childhood and education

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Although she was born in California, Daum grew up in Austin, Texas and Ridgewood, New Jersey. She received her bachelor's degree from Vassar College and her Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University.

Career

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Daum spent much of her twenties in New York City. In 1999, she moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, and the experience became the catalyst for her 2003 novel The Quality of Life Report, which follows the life and times of an ambitious young television journalist who trades New York for the fictional town of Prairie City and explores themes of social class in America as well as the contradictions of the "simplicity movement." She is also the author of two collections of essays, My Misspent Youth and The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion, which was named as a top 10 books of the year by Slate and Entertainment Weekly. It won the 2015 PEN CENTER USA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction.

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Her work has appeared in the pages of The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Vogue, GQ, Harper's and elsewhere .

Daum lives in Los Angeles, California and New York City. She has been an opinion columnist for the Los Angeles Times since 2005. She is a member of the adjunct faculty in the writing division of the School of the Arts at Columbia University.

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Daum is a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow in general nonfiction and the recipient of 2016 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in creative writing. In 2017 she served as the Bedell Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program

Books

Meghan Daum. (2001). My Misspent Youth: Essays. New York: Grove Press. ISBN 1-890447-26-9.

Meghan Daum. (2004). The Quality of Life Report. New York: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-200443-X.

Meghan Daum. (2010). Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 0-307-45484-3.

Meghan Daum. (2014). The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-28044-4.

Meghan Daum., ed. (2015). Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids. New York: Picador. ISBN 978-1-250-05293-3.

References

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