Daniel Mallory Ortberg

Daniel Mallory Ortberg (formerly Mallory Ortberg; November 28, 1986) is an American author and editor. He co-founded the website The Toast and has written the books Texts from Jane Eyre (2014) and The Merry Spinster (2018) as well as Slate's "Dear Prudence" advice column. He also hosts the "Dear Prudence" podcast. 2Early life Ortberg grew up in northern Illinois and then San Francisco, one of three children of the evangelical Christian author and Menlo Church pastor John Ortberg and Nancy Ortberg, who is also a pastor and the CEO of Transforming the Bay with Christ.He attended Azusa Pacific University, a private, evangelical Christian university in California. 2Career Ortberg wrote for Gawker and The Hairpin. Through this work he met Nicole Cliffe, with whom he operated The Toast, a feminist general interest web site, from July 2013 to July 2016.He was included in the 2015 Forbes "30 under 30" list in the media category. On November 9, 2015, Slate announced he would take over the magazine's "Dear Prudence" advice column from Emily Yoffe.In 2017, he launched a paid subscription email newsletter called the Shatner Chatner. 3Books Ortberg has cited Shirley Jackson, particularly We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan as writing influences. 4Texts from Jane Eyre Ortberg's first book, Texts from Jane Eyre, was released in November 2014 and became a New York Times bestseller. The book was based on a column he wrote first at The Hairpin, then continued at The Toast, which imagines famous literary characters exchanging anachronistic text message