Daniel Mendelsohn

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Daniel Mendelsohn, the author of the international bestseller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, is an award-winning writer, critic and translator. His essays, reviews and articles appear in many publications, most frequently in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and the New York Times Book Review, where he is a columnist for “Bookends.” Formerly the weekly book critic for New York magazine, he is presently a Contributing Editor at Travel + Leisure.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Essays 2013*

Best American Essays 2021*

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