Daniel Roberts’s debut novel Bar Maid was a USA TODAY best seller which the Kirkus Review called "An archly comic love story with notes of farce and fable. Roberts' old-school, slightly surreal humor has
a dash of Barthelme or Perelman.”
Prior to becoming an author, he wrote plays: Haunted House which The New York Times called “Sparklingly original with characters that stick;” and “Brando” of which Time Out New York wrote “An impressive piece of writing recalling Edward Albee or John Guare.” Vocationally, Roberts works as a private investor and venture capitalist in New York City where he lives with his young daughter.