Edward Mendelson - Popular Culture

Popular Culture

In the film Into My Heart (1998) the character of Professor Mendelkern referred to by Ben Hawks (Rob Morrow) is based on Mendelson.

In Alexander McCall Smith's novel The Right Attitude to Rain (2006), the main character exchanges letters with Mendelson about W.H. Auden and Robert Burns, and he then appears in The Comfort of Saturdays (2007).

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