Daniel Mendelsohn is an internationally bestselling author, critic, essayist and translator. He writes frequently for the New Yorker and New York Review of Books and has been a columnist for BBC Culture, New York, Harpers, and the New York Times Book Review. His most recent memoir, An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic, published in 2017, was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Library Journal, Kirkus, and Newsday. His other books include two memoirs, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (2006) and The Elusive Embrace (1999); two collections of essays; and a translation, with commentary, of the complete poems of Constantine Cavafy. He teaches literature at Bard College.