Daniel Martin Klein (born 1939 in Wilmington, Delaware) is an American writer of fiction, non-fiction, and humor. His most notable work is Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar co-written with Thomas Cathcart.

Klein went to school at Harvard College where he received a B.A. in philosophy.After a brief career in television comedy, he began writing books, ranging from thrillers and mysteries to humorous books about philosophy, including the New York Times bestseller, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes (with Thomas Cathcart).[4] He lives in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and is married to Freke Vuijst, American correspondent for the Dutch newsweekly, 'Vrij Nederland’. 

Awards

'Foreword Magazines’ Book of the Year - Silver Award in Literary Fiction(2009) for novel, ‘The History of Now’

List of books

Non-Fiction

• Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates (with Thomas Cathcart), Viking, 2009 . ISBN 0670020834[7]
• Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington (with Thomas Cathcart),Abrams Books, 2008. ISBN 0810995417[8]
• Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes (with Thomas Cathcart), Abrams Books, 2007. ISBN 081091493X[9]
• The Half-Jewish Book: A Celebration (with Freke Vuijst), Villard, 2000. ISBN 0375503854[10]

 

Thrillers and Mysteries

• Such Vicious Minds, St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2004 ISBN0312319401
• Viva Las Vengeance, St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2003. ISBN 0312288069
• Blue Suede Clues, St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2003. ISBN 0312986696
• Kill Me Tender, St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2002. ISBN 0312981953
• Beauty Sleep, St. Martin’s, 1990. ISBN 0312042647
• Wavelengths, Doubleday, 1982. ISBN 0385174454
• Embryo, Doubleday, 1980. ISBN 0445046880

Novels

• The History of Now, Permanent Press, 2009. ISBN 1579621813
• Magic Time, Doubleday, 1984. ISBN 0385174527