McFarlin Fellows Dinner with Daniel Mendelsohn

Name: McFarlin Fellows Dinner with Daniel Mendelsohn
Start: 2025-09-23T18:30:00-05:00
Location: McFarlin Library

Schedule

Tue, 23 Sep, 2025 at 06:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

McFarlin Library | Tulsa, OK

The University of Tulsa is honored to welcome Daniel Mendelsohn—acclaimed author, critic, and essayist— as the featured guest for the September 23rd McFarlin Fellows Dinner.

The McFarlin Fellows Dinner is a signature event celebrating the transformative role of libraries and the vital importance of Special Collections at McFarlin Library. Guests will enjoy an evening of exceptional dining and conversation with one of today’s foremost literary voices.

This year, we are pleased to announce the availability of single tickets, offering more supporters of the library the opportunity to participate in this distinguished gathering.

Your attendance directly supports McFarlin Library’s mission to preserve and provide access to rare and unique resources that enrich scholarship and cultural understanding.

Reserve your place today and join us for an inspiring evening in support of McFarlin Library: https://utulsa.edu/give/giving-opportunities/mcfarlin-library-giving/mcfarlin-fellows-daniel-mendelsohn/

📚 About Daniel Mendelsohn:
Mendelsohn is an internationally bestselling author, critic, essayist, and translator. Born in New York City in 1960, he received degrees in Classics from the University of Virginia and Princeton. After completing his Ph.D. he moved to New York City, where he began freelance writing full time; since 1991 he has been a prolific contributor of essays, reviews, and articles to many publications, most frequently The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. He has also been a contributing editor at Travel + Leisure and a columnist for The New York Times Book Review, Harper’s, and New York magazine, where he was the weekly book critic. In February 2019, he was named Editor-at-Large of the New York Review of Books and the Director of the Robert B. Silvers Foundation, a charitable trust that supports writers of nonfiction, essay, and criticism.