Biography
Daniel Mendelsohn was born in New York in 1960 and educated at the University of Virginia and at Princeton. His books include the internationally-bestselling Holocaust family memoir The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, which won the National Jewish Book Award and many other honors; An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic; a translation of the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy; and three collections of essays and reviews. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, where he is Editor-at-Large, he teaches literature at Bard College and lives in the Hudson Valley of New York.