Draft:Daniel Magariel

Daniel Magariel is an American novelist. He is the author of One of the Boys and Walk the Darkness Down. Magariel received his Bachelor's from Columbia University and MFA from Syracuse University where he studied with George Saunders. Originally from Kansas City, he now lives in Cape May with his wife Justine and two children Laurence and Sebastian.

Among his influences as a writer, Magariel lists Ernest Hemingway, Vladimir Nabokov, Denis Johnson, Cormac McCarthy and James Salter.

His debut novel One of the Boys received starred reviews in Kirkus and Publisher's Weekly as well as further positive reviews in The Guardian, The New York Times, and NPR.

Walk the Darkness Down received early praise by Pulitzer Prize winners Hernan Diaz and Annie Proulx. It was reviewed positively in the New York Times and was a 2023 most anticipated book by LitHub. Booklist called the novel "a modern Hemingway." . To research the novel, Magariel spent a few weeks at sea on a commercial fishing boat.

In an interview with Literary Hub, Magariel said that "It’s liberating to discover that the real pleasure of writing comes in the act itself, in the obsessive and hesitant labor, in the sustained years-long meditation, in the slow and methodical tinkering toward beauty and meaning, and not in what anyone has to say, least of all me."