Meghan Daum

Meghan Daum (born 1970 in California) is an American author, essayist, and journalist. Although she was born in California, Daum grew up primarily in Ridgewood, New Jersey. She received her bachelor's degree from Vassar College and her Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University.

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. This novel is a semi-roman à clef for Daum, which follows the life and times of an ambitious young journalist named Lucinda Trout. 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 one of Slate's top 10 books of the year.^[1]

Her work has appeared in the pages of The New Yorker, GQ, Harper's, and The Village Voice.

Daum lives in Los Angeles, California, and is currently a columnist for the Los Angeles Times. Her column appears every Thursday in the Op-Ed section of the Times.

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

External links

• Slates Top 10 Books of the Year 2014
• Meghan Daum on Twitter