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His other books include a memoir, The Elusive Embrace, which was a New York Times Notable Book of 1999 and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year; a collection of his critical essays on books, theater, and movies, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, named a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2008; and an acclaimed two-volume translation of the complete works of Cavafy, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2009. The Lost, published by HarperCollins in 2006, won the National Books Critics Circle Award and the National Jewish Book Award in the United States and the Prix Médicis in France, among many other honors, and has been published in over fifteen languages. Mr. Mendelsohn’s other awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the NBCC Citation for Excellence in Book Reviewing, and the George Jean Nathan Prize for Drama Criticism; in 2008 he was named by The Economist as one of the best critics writing in the English language. He teaches at Bard College and divides his time among homes in New York City, the Hudson Valley, and New Jersey. |
Daniel Mendelsohn, the award-winning critic, essayist and translator and author of the international bestseller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, was born on Long Island in 1960 and educated at the University of Virginia and at Princeton. He began publishing reviews and essays on literary and cultural topics in 1991, and since then his work has appeared in many national publications, most frequently in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. He has also been the weekly book critic for New York and a frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review, and is a Contributing Editor at Travel + Leisure.