A Conversation with Daniel Mendelsohn

Join the Kendall College of Arts & Sciences for a conversation with internationally bestselling author, critic, essayist and translator Daniel Mendelsohn.

After completing his doctorate in 1991, Mendelsohn began working as a contributor to “The New Yorker,” and “The New York Review of Books.” In 2019, he was named Editor-at-Large for the “New York Review of Books,” and Director of the Robert B. Silvers Foundation, which supports writers of nonfiction, essay and criticism. Mendelsohn’s books include “An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic,” (2017), “The Elusive Embrace,” (1999) and “Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate,” (2020). His most recent translation of “The Odyssey,” has been hailed as “fast, fluent, thrilling, and a hugely impressive accomplishment.”

Mendelsohn’s honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the George Jean Nathan Prize for Drama Criticism and Princeton University’s James Madison Medal. In 2022, the Republic of France made him a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters, and he received the Premio Malaparte, Italy’s highest honor for foreign writers.

The talk will begin at 3:30 p.m. in Tyrrell Hall Auditorium. Copies of his latest translation of “The Odyssey,” are available from Magic City Books.