Daniel Mendelsohn
Author of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
About the Author
Daniel Mendelsohn is an award-winning author. He received a B.A. in Classics from the University of Virginia and received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Classics from Princeton University. Upon completing his Ph.D. in 1994, Mendelsohn began a career in journalism. In 2005 Mendelsohn was the recipient of a show more Guggenheim Fellowship for a translation of Cavafy's "Unfinished" poems, with commentary. His other honors include the National Book Critics Circle Award for Excellence in Book Reviewing (2000) and the George Jean Nathan Prize for Drama Criticism (2002). Mendelsohn's academic speciality is Greek (especially Euripidean) tragedy. In 2015 his title The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million made the New Zealand Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Author Daniel Mendelsohn at the 2018 Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas, United States. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=74352264
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- Canonical name
- Mendelsohn, Daniel
- Birthdate
- 1960-04-16
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Long Island, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- Old Bethpage, New York, USA
New Jersey, USA
New York, New York, USA - Education
- University of Virginia (BA|1982|Classics)
Princeton University (MA|PhD|1994|Classics) - Occupations
- author
critic
journalist
lecturer (classics)
translator
memoirist - Organizations
- Princeton University
Travel + Leisure - Awards and honors
- George Jean Nathan Award (2001-02|Drama Criticism)
Mellon Fellow (Princeton University|Humanities)
Guggenheim Fellowship (2005|translation|Cavafy's "unfinished" poems)
National Book Critics Circle Award (2000|Excellence in Book Reviewing)
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- Popularity
- #8,338
- Rating
- 4.0
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- ISBNs
- 105
- Languages
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