Daniel Mendelsohn Bio | Wiki
Daniel Mendelsohn is an American memoirist, essayist, critic, columnist, and translator. He serves as the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard College, and the Editor at Large of the New York Review of Books. Daniel is also the Director of the Robert B. Silvers Foundation, a charitable organization dedicated to supporting writers of nonfiction.
He received degrees in Classics from the University of Virginia and Princeton. After completing his Ph.D. Daniel moved to New York City, where he started freelance writing full-time. Since 1991 he has been a prolific contributor of essays, reviews, and articles to many publications, most frequently The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books.
Daniel Mendelsohn Age
Daniele was born on April 16, 1960, in Long Island, New York, United States. He is 62 years old.
Daniel Mendelsohn Height
He is a man of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 7 in (Approx. 1.70 m).
Daniel Mendelsohn Family
He was born in New York City and raised on Long Island in the town of Old Bethpage, New York by his parents. Daniel grew up in a Jewish family alongside his siblings Eric, Matt, and Jennifer. Eric is a film director, Matt is a photographer, and Jennifer is also a journalist and the founder of “#ResistanceGenealogy”. He is the nephew of the psychologist Allan Rechtschaffen.
Daniel Mendelsohn Wife
Daniel is openly gay and single. He divides his time between this apartment in New York, Bard College, and the Princeton area, where he is a father figure to the two children of a female friend.
Daniel Mendelsohn Education
He attended the University of Virginia from 1978 to 1982 as an Echols Scholar. Daniele graduated 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 started 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.
Daniel Mendelsohn Odyssey | An Odyssey
Daniel’s work An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic was published in 2017. It is a memoir intertwining a personal narrative about the author’s late father, Jay, a retired research scientist. The father decided to enroll in his son’s Spring, 2011 Odyssey seminar at Bard College, with reflections on the text of Homer’s Odyssey and its theme of father-son relationships, education, and identity.
The book is the third in which Daniele combines memoir and literary criticism, and was named a Best Book of the Year by National Public Radio, Library Journal, Newsday, and Kirkus Reviews.
Daniel Mendelsohn The Lost | Lost
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million became published in 2006. The story of the author’s worldwide search over five years to learn about the fates of relatives who perished in the Holocaust was published to wide acclaim in the US and throughout Europe. After the book’s publication in a bestselling French translation, in 2007, film rights were optioned by director Jean-Luc Godard.
Daniel Mendelsohn Books
-Homer: The Odyssey.
-Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate
-Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones
-The Bad Boy of Athens: Musing on Culture from Sappho to Spider-Man
-An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
-Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to pop culture
Daniel Mendelsohn Three Rings
Daniele’s book Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate became published on Sep 8, 2020. He explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and the artfulness of the stories we tell.
Combining memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism, Three Rings weaves together the stories of three exiled writers who turned to the classics of the past to create masterpieces of their own
Daniel Mendelsohn The Elusive Embrace
The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity (1999), is a memoir entwining themes of gay identity, family history, and Classical myth and literature. It was named The New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year.
Daniel Mendelsohn New Yorker
He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. After completing his Ph.D., Daniel 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 numerous major publications, most often in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books.
Between 2000 and 2002 he was the weekly book critic for New York Magazine; his reviews have also appeared frequently in The New York Times Book Review, where he was also a columnist for the “Bookends” page.
Some of Daniel’s colleagues at The New Yorker include:
Molly Fischer – staff writer
Liana Finck – cartoonist
Lauren Collins – staff writer
Isaac Chotiner – staff writer
Emily Flake – cartoonist
Liza Donnelly – cartoonist
Jennifer Gonnerman – staff writer
Daniel Mendelsohn Bard
In the fall of 2006, Daniel became named to the Charles Ranlett Flint Chair in Humanities at Bard College. Currently, he teaches one course each semester on literary subjects. His academic residencies have included the Richard Holbrooke Distinguished Visitor at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany (2008).
Daniel Mendelsohn Net Worth
He earns his wealth from his career, therefore, he has amassed a fortune over the years. Daniel’s estimated net worth is $850,430.
Is Daniel Mendelsohn Married
No. Daniel is openly gay and single. He once said “I will never marry. I am a single fellow.”