Distinguished Academic Lecturer

Daniel Mendelsohn
“Medea on the Jersey Shore: Tragedy and the Crisis of Reality in Contemporary Culture”

Award-winning writer, critic, and translator
Author of the International Bestseller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 7 P.M.
L.V. EBERHARD CENTER, 2ND FLOOR
ROBERT C. PEW GRAND RAPIDS CAMPUS

Lecture followed by book-signing and reception

Discover why The New York Review of Books calls Daniel Mendelsohn “arguably the best writer and critic at work today” and declares: “there is nothing to which he does not bring a fresh perspective.”

Mendelsohn studied classics at the University of Virginia and Princeton University, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1994. Since then his articles, essays, reviews, and translations have appeared in numerous national publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, The Nation, Esquire, Travel + Leisure, and The Paris Review.

A recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Excellence in Reviewing (2001) and the George Jean Nathan Prize for Drama Criticism (2002), Mr. Mendelsohn is the author of six books, including his award-winning account of his search for the truth about six relatives who perished in the Holocaust, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (2006). His latest book, Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture, will appear in October.

Music & Dance

Art Gallery

Poetry Night