Life
Danler grew up in Seal Beach, California, Seal Beach, California. At age 16, she moved to Boulder, Colorado to live with her father. She attended Kenyon College in Ohio. After moving to New York in 2006, Danler worked at Union Square Cafe for a year and earned an Master of Fine Arts, MFA in creative writing at the New School. She was working at Buvette, a restaurant in the West Village when she earned her first book deal''.'' In her early 30s, she moved to Los Angeles. As of May 2020, she was living in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, Silver Lake with her husband and son, and was expecting her second child. Danler moved her family to Barcelona to work on ''Stray'' for a brief time, before returning to Los Angeles.Writing career
In 2014, Danler secured a six-figure, two-book publication deal with Alfred A. Knopf, Knopf. She had sent her manuscript for ''Sweetbitter'' to an editor at Penguin Random House, Penguin a regular customer at Buvette who mentioned it to a colleague, who then acquired the book for Knopf. ''Sweetbitter'', a novel based on her experiences of working at Union Square Cafe, was published in 2016. It earned a starred review in ''Kirkus Reviews, Kirkus'' and was a ''New York Times'' bestseller. A review in ''The New Yorker'' said that "Danler deftly captures the unique power of hierarchy in the restaurant world, the role of drug and alcohol abuse, and the sense of borrowed grandeur that pervades the serving scene." A television adaptation (''Sweetbitter (TV series), Sweetbitter)'', created by Danler, Stuart Zicherman, and Plan B Entertainment, premiered on Starz in 2018 and aired for two seasons. In 2020, she published a memoir'', Stray'', about "familial dysfunction and addiction" and "the entanglement of love and disappointment." ''Kirkus'' called it a "mostly moving text in which writing is therapeutic and family trauma is useful material." A review in ''The New York Times'' described it as "carefully concocted but unfermented." Marion Winik, writing for ''Washington Post, The Washington Post'', gave ''Stray'' a mixed review with the comment:Works
* ''Sweetbitter'' (2016) * ''Stray: A Memoir'' (2020)References
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