Daniel Mendelsohn | |
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Born | Daniel Adam Mendelsohn 1960 (age 63–64) Long Island, New York, U.S. |
Occupation | Author, essayist, critic, columnist, translator |
Language | English, Greek, French |
Education | University of Virginia (BA) Princeton University (MA, PhD) |
Genre | Criticism, non-fiction, memoir |
Subject | Holocaust, Judaism, classics, Cavafy, literature, film, theater, television |
Notable works | The Lost (2006) An Odyssey (2017) |
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Daniel Adam Mendelsohn (born 1960) is an American author, essayist, critic, columnist, and translator. He is currently the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard College, the Editor at Large of the New York Review of Books, and the Director of the Robert B. Silvers Foundation, a charitable organization dedicated to supporting writers of nonfiction.