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Daniel C Schechter has been contributing to Lonely Planet travel guides since 1999, when he covered a broad swath of northern Mexico for the popular guidebook publisher. Since then, he has updated, rewritten and contributed material to sections of a dozen Lonely Planet titles, including Venezuela, Spain, Yucatán, Pacific Northwest and Mexico City. Most recently, Daniel toured Guatemala's highlands and El Petén regions to gather material for the fourth edition of the Guatemala guide.
Although he hails from Brooklyn, the Mexican capital was Daniel's home base for nearly a decade. It was there that he began his writing career,
Daniel C Schechter has been contributing to Lonely Planet travel guides since 1999, when he covered a broad swath of northern Mexico for the popular guidebook publisher. Since then, he has updated, rewritten and contributed material to sections of a dozen Lonely Planet titles, including Venezuela, Spain, Yucatán, Pacific Northwest and Mexico City. Most recently, Daniel toured Guatemala's highlands and El Petén regions to gather material for the fourth edition of the Guatemala guide.
Although he hails from Brooklyn, the Mexican capital was Daniel's home base for nearly a decade. It was there that he began his writing career, initially working as an editor at The News, Mexico City's English-language daily (until he was dismissed for running a story on the front page about discrimination against gays in Guadalajara, a taboo topic at the conservative paper).
He later joined the editorial staff of Business Mexico, the American Chamber's monthly magazine, where he contributed articles on travel, food and the environment.
In the process of researching a piece on guidebooks, Daniel made the fortuitous acquaintance of a veteran Lonely Planet author, whose recommendation led to his first project for the global publisher. Concurrently, he began translating texts from Spanish to English for various Mexican publications as well as for one major museum exhibit, at the Museo de Noreste in Monterrey, Mexico.
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