Daniel Greenburg was an American writer, humorist, and journalist.
11 Facts About Dan Greenburg
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Daniel Greenburg was born on June 20,1936, in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Samuel and Leah Greenburg.
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Meanwhile, his old editor at Esquire, Ralph Ginzburg, had started a new national magazine called Eros and convinced Dan Greenburg to move to New York and become its managing editor.
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In New York, Dan Greenburg began to write a satirical non-fiction book entitled How to Be a Jewish Mother, which became the bestselling non-fiction book of 1965.
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Dan Greenburg is probably most well known for authoring a handful of very popular series of children's books, although he still wrote novels for adults.
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Dan Greenburg wrote for television and movies, and has been regularly published in Life, Time, The New Yorker, and other national publications.
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Dan Greenburg died of complications from a stroke at a hospice in the Bronx, on December 18,2023, at the age of 87.
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Dan Greenburg's plays have been performed on Broadway, off-Broadway, at the American Conservatory Theater, Yale University, and at the Actors Studio, where he was a member of the Playwrights Unit.
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Dan Greenburg was a television talk show guest on the Today Show, The Tonight Show, Larry King Live, and Late Night with David Letterman.
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Dan Greenburg had small acting roles in several films he wrote, including Private Lessons, Private School, and I Could Never.
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Dan Greenburg played John Clum in Doc, the Frank Perry remake of Gunfight at the OK.