Daniel Mendelsohn wins National Book Critics Circle award for best non-fiction
Daniel Mendelsohn began his talk at the Miami Book Fair International in November, 2006, by reading a selection from his powerful narrative, The Lost: A Search for Six in Six Million (HarperCollins; September, 2006), winner of the prestigious National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) award for Best Non-Fiction in 2006. Having set the stage, Mendelsohn described what he knew of his grandfather's brother, Shmiel Jagr, his wife and their four daughters before they were swallowed up in Hitler's death camps. Mendelsohn then tells how and why he was compelled to go on a five year journey to find the survivors of his grandfather's hometown in the Ukraine. Mendelsohn and author Kati Marton, who was on the panel to present her book, The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World (Simon & Schuster, October, 2006), discussed the personal decisions of survivors to tell or not to tell their stories.
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Daniel Mendelsohn wins National Book Critics Circle award for best non-fiction
