Books By Mary Renault, Daniel Mendelsohn - Author

Mary Renault (Author) Mary Renault (1905-1983) was the author of more than a dozen novels. She was born in London, educated at Oxford and trained as a nurse. After World War II she and her life partner, Julie Mullard, settled in South Africa and travelled widely in Africa and Greece. This was when she began writing her historical novels, including The Last of the Wine (1956), The King Must Die (1958) and The Persian Boy (1972), and a biography of Alexander the Great, The Nature of Alexander (1974). Daniel Mendelsohn (Introducer) 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.