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.
[2] He attended Little Red School House in Greenwich Village and Nyack High School in Rockland County, New York, studied philosophy and poetry at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, and obtained a master's degree in English from Johns Hopkins University.
[2] Menaker was a fiction editor at The New Yorker for twenty years and had material published in the magazine frequently.
In 1995 he was hired by Harold Evans as Senior Literary Editor at Random House and later became Executive Editor-in-Chief, working with such writers as Salman Rushdie, Colum McCann, Elizabeth Strout, and Nassim Taleb.