Meghan Daum is the author of four books, most recently the collection of original essays The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion, which won the 2015 PEN Center USA Award for creative nonfiction. She is also the editor of the New York Times bestseller Selfish, Shallow & Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not To Have Kids. Her other books include the essay collection My Misspent Youth, the novel The Quality of Life Report, and Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived In That House, a memoir.
ARTICLES FEATURING MEGHAN
Empty Beds, Empty Wombs: Life Beyond the Blueprint
A look at three books that are designed to help us see what living beyond the marriage blueprint looks like....
Stretching Out
"My ideal audience would be every literate person on earth, minus anyone I’m related to or grew up with."...
The Major and the Minor: Meghan Daum Bears Down
Like any good personal essayist, Meghan Daum knows how to dive and how to surface....
Home Pages
A story of "a very imperfect life lived among very imperfect houses," written in homage to the yearnings that have fueled her lifelong game of house....
