Daniel Mendelsohn

Daniel Mendelsohn is an award-winning memoirist, critic, essayist, and translator. A longtime contributor to “The New Yorker” and “The New York Review of Books,” he has also been a columnist on books, film, TV, and culture for BBC Culture, “New York” and “Harper’s” magazines, and “The New York Times Book Review.” His books include the memoirs “An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic” (2017), the internationally bestselling Holocaust family saga “The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million” (2006), a translation, with commentary, of the Modern Greek poet Constantine Cavafy, and three collections of essays, most recently “Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones” (2019). His tenth book, “Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate,” published in September 2020, was named a Kirkus Best Book of the Year and won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book Prize) in France. Mr. Mendelsohn is the Editor-at-Large of “The New York Review of Books” and the Director of the Robert B. Silvers Foundation, a charitable trust that supports nonfiction writing. He teaches literature at Bard College.