Acclaimed Author Daniel Mendelsohn Concludes Rutgers–Camden’s 08-09 Visiting Writers Series

The event will take place in the Multi-Purpose Room, located in the Campus Center, between Cooper Street and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge on the Rutgers–Camden Campus. A question and answer session will follow the reading. 

Mendelsohn is the author of three books:  The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity; Gender and the City in Euripides’ Political Plays; and award-winning international bestseller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million. A former book critic for New York magazine and a contributor to The New York Review of Books, Mendelsohn has published his articles, essays, reviews, and translations in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Nation, and Esquire.

This reading concludes Rutgers–Camden’s 2008-09 Visiting Writers Series, which featured a dozen acclaimed authors including T. Cooper, Percival Everett and Rolf Potts.

The 23rd annual Rutgers–Camden Summer Writers’ Conference July 6 through July 15 will include a free reading series, spotlighting Adam Mansbach, the 2009 New Voices Professor at Rutgers–Camden.

For more information, call (856) 225-6121; to learn more about the Rutgers–Camden MFA in creative writing program, visit http://mfa.camden.rutgers.edu.

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