Daniel Smith

Daniel Smith is the author of the books Muses, Madmen, and Prophets and Monkey Mind, a New York Times bestseller. His articles and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, Harper’s, the London Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine, among other publications. A former staff editor at The Atlantic, he has taught at Bryn Mawr and The College of New Rochelle, where for ten years he held the Critchlow Endowed Chair in English. He is currently at work on a book about the negative emotions.