Daphne Merkin

Daphne Merkin is a novelist, memoirist, cultural critic, and the author of five books, including the memoir This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression and the critically acclaimed novels Enchantment and 22 Minutes of Unconditional Love. She has also written two collections of essays, Dreaming of Hitler and The Fame Lunches. Merkin worked in book publishing before she became a staff writer for the New Yorker and a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, T Magazine, and Elle. She is currently a writer for The New York Review of Books, a contributing writer for Airmail, and writes frequently for the New York Times Book Review. She lives in Manhattan, where she grew up, and has taught writing at Marymount, Hunter College, the 92nd St., and Columbia University. She is currently working on a book about her experiences in psychoanalysis.