Edward Mendelson

Edward Mendelson is the Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and W. H. Auden’s literary executor. His book, Early Auden, Later Auden: A Critical Biography, is the standard study of Auden’s life and work. He is the editor of the Complete Works of W. H. Auden, a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year.  His essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, and many other journals and collections. Mendelson is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.