Daniel Mendelsohn

Daniel Mendelsohn
Daniel Mendelsohn introducing Robert B. Silvers at the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Awards Ceremony
Born	Daniel Adam Mendelsohn 1960 (age 56–57) Long Island, New York, U.S.A.
Occupation	Author, essayist, critic, columnist, translator
Nationality	American
Genre	Criticism, Non-fiction, memoir
Subject	Holocaust, Judaism, classics, Cavafy, literature, film, theater, television
Website
www.danielmendelsohn.com

Daniel Mendelsohn (born 1960) is an American memoirist, essayist, critic, columnist, and translator.

Mendelsohn was born on Long Island and raised in the town of Old Bethpage, New York. He attended the University of Virginia from 1978 to 1982 as an Echols Scholar, graduating with a B.A. summa cum laude in Classics. From 1982 to 1985, he resided in New York City, working as an assistant to an opera impresario, Joseph A. Scuro. The following year he began graduate studies at Princeton University, receiving his M.A. in 1989 and his Ph.D. in 1994. His dissertation, later published as a scholarly monograph by Oxford University Press, was on Euripidean tragedy.

Mendelsohn began contributing reviews, op-eds, and essays to such publications as QW, Out, The New York Times, The Nation, and The Village Voice while still a graduate student; after completing his Ph.D., he moved to New York City and began writing full-time. Since then his review-essays on books, films, theater and television have appeared frequently in a number of major publications, most often in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. Others include The New York Times Magazine, Travel + Leisure, Newsweek, Esquire, The Paris Review, The New Republic, and Harpers magazine, where he was a culture columnist. Between 2000 and 2002 he was the weekly book critic for New York Magazine, and between 1996 and 2006 his reviews appeared frequently in The New York Times Book Review, where, from 2013 to 2014, he was also a columnist for the "Bookends" page.