RSF Board - The Robert B. Silvers Foundation

Foundation Board

Rea Hederman

Rea Hederman, President of the Foundation, is the publisher of The New York Review of Books.

Daniel Mendelsohn

Daniel Mendelsohn, Director of the Foundation, is a memoirist, critic, essayist and translator. He is the Editor-at-Large of the New York Review of Books and a professor of humanities at Bard College. His books include An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, a translation of the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy, and three collections of essays. His new translation of The Odyssey will be published by University of Chicago Press in Spring 2025.

Vinson Cunningham

Vinson Cunningham is a staff writer and a theatre critic at The New Yorker. In 2020, he was a finalist for a National Magazine Award for his profile of the comedian Tracy Morgan. A former White House staffer, he now teaches in the MFA Writing program at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York City. His debut novel, Great Expectations, is out now.

Tim Duggan

Tim Duggan is Vice President and Executive Editor at Holt. The books he has edited include winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and multiple finalists for the National Book Award. He has received the Editorial Excellence Award from the Biographers International Organization, and is a fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities.

Parul Sehgal

Parul Sehgal is a staff writer at The New Yorker and former book critic at The New York Times. Her criticism has received awards from the New York Press Club and the National Books Critic Circle.

Patrick Hederman

Since 2007, Patrick Hederman has worked at The New York Review of Books, where he is involved on the publishing side of both the magazine and its book publishing imprint, NYRB Classics.

Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW, and Swing Time, as well as two collections of essays, Changing My Mind and Feel Free. Zadie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002, and was listed as one of Granta‘s 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013. She is currently a tenured professor of fiction at New York University and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Foundation Administrator

Chandler Fritz

Chandler Fritz is administrator of the Robert B. Silvers Foundation. He is a Contributing Writer at County Highway.