Daniel Mendelsohn is an internationally bestselling author, critic, essayist and translator. His books include Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate (2020), An Odyssey: A Father, a Son and an Epic (2017) and The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (2006), which won the National Books Critics Circle Award and the Prix Médicis in France. He teaches at Bard College and is Editor-at-Large at The New York Review of Books.