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  • Bibliography:
    3 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1999
  • Latest Book:
    September 2017
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Book List in Order: 3 titles



  • Hailed for its searing emotional insights, and for the astonishing originality with which it weaves together personal history, cultural essay, and readings of classical texts by Sophocles, Ovid, Euripides, and Sappho, The Elusive Embrace is a profoun...



  • A deeply moving tale of a father and son's transformative journey in reading--and reliving--Homer's epic masterpiece. When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard Colle...






Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Daniel Mendelsohn has published 3 books.

Daniel Mendelsohn does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic, was published in September 2017.

The first book by Daniel Mendelsohn, The Elusive Embrace, was published in May 1999.

No. Daniel Mendelsohn does not write books in series.