Daniel Mendelsohn

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Full Name	Daniel Mendelsohn
Date Of Birth	Apr 16, 1960(1960-04-16)
Age	64
Birthplace	Long Island
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Aries

Daniel Mendelsohn Biography

Daniel Mendelsohn is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on April 16, 1960 in Long Island, New York, United States. Daniel Mendelsohn (born 1960) is the American writer, memoirist, critic columnist, translator and columnist editor at large of New York Review of Books. He also serves as director of the Robert B. Silvers Foundation which is a charity committed to supporting authors of non-fiction.

As a graduate student, Mendelsohn began contributing reviews essay, op-eds, and other essays to magazines like QW, Out, The New York Times, The Nation The Nation, and The Village Voice; after having completed the requirements for his Ph.D., he moved to New York City and began writing full-time. Since then, his essays on review of theatre, films, books and television have appeared regularly in a variety of major publications, with the most frequent appearing on The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. Other publications are Town & Country (magazine), The New York Times Magazine, Travel + Leisure, Newsweek, Esquire, The Paris Review, The New Republic and Harper’s magazine, where Mendelsohn was a columnist in the field of culture. From 2000 to 2002,, he was the book critic for the week in New York Magazine; his reviews also appear regularly within The New York Times Book Review and The New York Times Book Review, where he is also the columnist on”Bookends” and the “Bookends” page.

In February, 2019, Hederman also announced that Mendelsohn had been named Director of the Robert B. Silvers Foundation, as per a stipulation in Silvers’ will. The Foundation is dedicated to supporting writers of nonfiction of the kind Silvers fostered at the Review: long-form criticism and journalism and writing on arts and culture.

Mendelsohn is the author of eight books, including the New York Times and international bestseller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million. He is currently at work on a new translation of Homer’s The Odyssey for the University of Chicago Press, and his third collection of essays, Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones, covering subjects from Sappho and Virgil to television and films such as Ex Machina and Her to the fiction of Karl Ove Knausgaard and Hanya Yanagihara, will be published in October, 2019 by New York Review Books.

Mendelsohn began writing for The New York Review of Books around the year

2000. He quickly became a regular contributor. He published articles on a variety of topics, including Greek poetry and drama, American and British theater literature, television and film. In time, he was an intimate acquaintance of the editor who founded the magazine, Robert B. Silvers and Silvers his collaborator, Grace, Countess of Dudley.

Daniel Mendelsohn Net Worth

Daniel Mendelsohn is one of the richest Journalist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Daniel Mendelsohn 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Mendelsohn was born into Mendelsohn was born to a Jewish household in New York City and raised on Long Island in the town of Old Bethpage, New York. He was a student at his time at the University of Virginia from 1978 until 1982 in the capacity of an Echols Scholar. He graduated with a the B.A. Summa Cum Laude in Classics. From 1982 until 1985, he lived at New York City, working as an assistant for an opera singer, Joseph A. Scuro. In 1985, he began master’s studies in Princeton University, receiving his M.A. in 1989 and a Ph.D. from 1994. His dissertation, which was later published as a scholarly monograph published by Oxford University Press, was focused on Euripidean tragedy.

Mendelsohn’s area of expertise included Greek (especially Euripidean) tragedy He has also published research papers on Roman poetry as well as Greek religion. In the 90s when he was teaching on an intermittent basis, he served as a lecturer within the Classics department at Princeton University. In the fall of 2006, he was appointed to the Charles Ranlett chair in the Humanities of Bard College, where he currently teaches a single course per semester on literary topics. His academic residencies include the Richard Holbrooke Distinguished Visitors in the American Academy in Berlin, Germany (2008) and Critic-in Residence for the American Academy in Rome (2010) as well as a Visiting Writer at the Ca’Foscari University in Venice (2014). In March of 2019, he is scheduled to be in the University of Virginia, where he will be giving his Page-Barbour Lectures.

Mendelsohn has been the recipient of numerous prizes and honors both in the United States and abroad. Apart from awards for individual books, these include the American Academy of Arts and Letters Harold D. Vursell Memorial Prize for Prose Style (2014); the American Philological Association President’s Award for service to the Classics (2014); the George Jean Nathan Prize for Drama Criticism (2002); and the National Book Critics Circle Award Citation for Excellence in Book Reviewing (2000)

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