DANIEL, John M. 1941-

PERSONAL: Born November 22, 1941, in Minneapolis, MN; son of Lewis (a doctor) and Hannah (a homemaker; maiden name, Mallon) Daniel; married Karen Mullenger, 1964 (divorced); married Susan Plumley (a publisher), July 9, 1987; children: Morgan Neil, Benjamin William Lewis. Education: Stanford University, A.B., 1964. Politics: Democrat. Hobbies and other interests: Music, graphic art.

ADDRESSES: Office—Daniel & Daniel, Publishers, Inc., P.O. Box 21922, Santa Barbara, CA 93121. E-mail—jmdaniel@danielpublishing.com.

CAREER: Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, assistant editor, 1968-70; Kepler's Books, Menlo Park, CA, clerk and buyer, 1970-77; John Daniel Publication Services, Palo Alto, CA, editor and publisher, 1977-80; Capra Press, Santa Barbara, CA, editor and sales manager, 1983-85; Daniel & Daniel Publishers, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA, publisher and editor, 1985.

MEMBER: PEN Center USA West.

AWARDS, HONORS: Wallace Stegner fellowship in creative writing, Stanford University, 1967.

WRITINGS:

Play Melancholy Baby (fiction), Perseverance Press (Menlo Park, CA), 1986.

The Woman by the Bridge (fiction), Dolphin Moon Press (Baltimore, MD), 1991.

(Editor, with Steve Moss) The World's Shortest Stories of Love and Death (humor), Running Press (Philadelphia, PA), 1999.

(Editor, with Steve Moss) QPB Presents the Best World's Shortest Stories of All Time (humor), Quality Paperback Book Club, 2000.

Generous Helpings (fiction), Shoreline Press (Santa Barbara, CA), 2001.

(Editor) Yellow Bricks and Ruby Slippers: An Anthology of Very Short Stories, Essays, and Poems, Daniel & Daniel (Santa Barbara, CA), 2002.

Author of One for the Book (self-published memoir); and Structure, Style & Truth (book on writing short stories).

More than one hundred short stories and articles published in literary magazines. Also contributes crostic puzzles to Tin House Magazine.

SIDELIGHTS: John M. Daniel told CA: "I think the human condition is the only subject there is for fiction, but that allows for a lot of variety. Style is what makes writing fun to write and to read. I spend a lot of time in the persona of a fictional piano player named Casey, but I killed him off last year. I write for the fun of it. My favorite writer is (was) Richard Bissell."