Daphne Merkin Biography

Daphne Miriam Merkin is an American literary critic essayist and novelist. Merkin is a graduate of Barnard College. For a graduate program in English Literature,She also attended Columbia University's. As a book critic she began her career for Commentary magazine The New Republic and The New Leader where she wrote a book column and later a movie column. She became an editor in 1986 with the publishing house of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. In 1997 after Tina Brown became editor of The New Yorker Merkin became a film critic for the magazine. She also wrote extensively on books and became known for her frank forays into autobiography; her personal essays dealt with subjects ranging from her battle with depression to her predilection for spanking to the unacknowledged complexities of growing up rich on Park Avenue. In 2005 she joined The New York Times Magazine as a contributing writer. She is the author of a novel Enchantment (1984) as well as two collections of essays Dreaming of Hitler (1997) and The Fame Lunches (2014).Her father was the philanthropist Hermann Merkin. Her brother is J. Ezra Merkin a hedge fund manager and philanthropist who was embroiled in the Bernard Madoff scandal."

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