Daniel Mendelsohn

Daniel Mendelsohn, an award-winning author, critic, and translator,
writes frequently for The New York Review of Books and the New Yorker.
His books include the international bestseller The Lost: A Search for
Six of Six Million; a memoir, The Elusive Embrace; a translation of the
complete poems of Constantine Cavafy; and two collections of his essays
and criticism, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken
(2008) and Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop
Culture (2012). He teaches at Bard College.