Daniel Mendelsohn is an internationally bestselling author, critic, essayist, and translator, as well as Editor-at-Large of The New York Review of Books, director of the Robert B. Silvers Foundation, and a teacher of literature at Bard College. Trained in Classics at the University of Virginia and Princeton University, he has written widely on Greek literature, memoir, theater, film, and contemporary culture. His books include The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, National Jewish Book Award, and Prix Medicis; An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic; Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate; and Gender and the City in Euripides’ Political Plays. He has also translated the poetry of C. P. Cavafy. His translation of Homer’s Odyssey appeared from the University of Chicago Press in 2025. Mendelsohn’s honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the George Jean Nathan Prize for Drama Criticism, Princeton’s James Madison Medal, France’s Order of Arts and Letters, and Italy’s Premio Malaparte. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.