Out October 3, American Classicist by Victoria Houseman is a biography of Edith Hamilton, the remarkable woman whose bestselling #Mythology has introduced millions of readers to the classical world. Edith Hamilton (1867–1963) didn’t publish her first book until she was sixty-two. But over the next three decades, this former headmistress would become the twentieth century’s most famous interpreter of the classical world. Today, Hamilton’s Mythology (1942) remains the standard version of ancient t