# Daniel Mendelsohn
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daniel mendelsohn (born 1960), an American memoirist, essayist, critic, columnist, and translator, is the Editor at Large of the New York Review of Books. He is also the Director of the Robert B. Silvers Foundation, a charitable organization dedicated to supporting writers of nonfiction.
== Life and career ==
Mendelsohn was born to a Jewish family in New York City and raised on Long Island in the town of Old Bethpage, New York.
Encore: A father and a son and The Odyssey
Author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn was teaching a university class on Homer's The Odyssey, when his elderly father decided to enrol in it.Daniel became fascinated by the stories of the ancient world as a child and grew up to study the classics and then write books and essays to share his knowl…
September 7, 2026 - Patti Smith, Daniel Mendelsohn, and Robert Pinsky
Patti Smith, National Book Award–winning author of “Just Kids,” joins The Culture Show to discuss her latest memoir, “Bread of Angels.” The book traces her imaginative postwar childhood, her life with Fred “Sonic” Smith, and the years of loss and renewal that shaped her return to writing and perfor…
Classic Chats: Daniel Mendelsohn on translating the Odyssey
Mary and Charlotte talk to Daniel Mendelsohn, one of America’s most revered classicists, whose new translation of the Odyssey was published last year.
Daniel’s decision to translate the Odyssey occurred rather unusually. In 2011, his 82-year-old father decided to attend his weekly Odyssey seminar…
Exploring Anne Carson
It’s not every year that a classicist wins the Nobel Prize for Literature (in fact, it hasn’t happened since 1959), so Mary and Charlotte interrupt the schedule to reflect on Anne Carson’s extraordinary career as both a classicist and a poet.
Carson is most famous as a poet, but her work is rooted…
249. Naomi Rood on Homer's Odyssey
In this episode, we welcome Dr. Naomi Rood to discuss Homer’s Odyssey. Consisting of around 12,100 lines of verse (separated into 24 books) and being around 2,700 years old, what is the Odyssey and why does it matter? We ask about authorship, composition – as well as how it connects and relates to …
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