Bernard Evslin is an author

Author

An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

 best known for his adaptations of Greek mythology

Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. They were a part of religion in ancient Greece...

. With over seventy titles, which include both novel-length retellings and short stories, Evslin is one of the most widely published authors of classical mythology in the world. His best-known work is Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths, which has sold more than ten million copies worldwide and has been translated into ten different languages. An estimated 30 million students have come into contact with Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths due to its repeated use in high school and college classrooms over the years. This bestselling anthology includes such well-known stories as "Theseus and the Minotaur" and "Perseus and Medusa." He also published non-Hellenic titles such as The Green Hero, based on the Irish mythological

Irish mythology

The mythology of pre-Christian Ireland did not entirely survive the conversion to Christianity, but much of it was preserved, shorn of its religious meanings, in medieval Irish literature, which represents the most extensive and best preserved of all the branch and the Historical Cycle. There are...

 character Finn McCool

Fionn mac Cumhaill

Fionn mac Cumhaill , known in English as Finn McCool, was a mythical hunter-warrior of Irish mythology, occurring also in the mythologies of Scotland and the Isle of Man...

. He also was involved in an audio book called: "Children of the Corn." It included "Whistling Boy" a Native American tale; "Pancho's Puppets," a story about a boy in Mexico, and other stories.

Evslin won many awards for his writing, including the National Education Association Award in 1961, National Education Award nomination in 1975, best television documentary on an Educational Theme Award, Washington Irving Children's Book Choice Award, and Westchester Library Association Award.

Bernard Evslin was married to author and teacher Dorothy Evslin, and is the father of cofounder and CEO of ITXC Corporation, author and blogger Tom Evslin

Tom Evslin

Tom Evslin formerly served as Chief Technology Officer for the State of Vermont. Formerly he was Chief Recovery Officer responsible for coordinating the State's use of federal stimulus money under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act...

 and grandfather of the screenwriter Noah Evslin who is currently working on cinematic versions of his grandfather's works. He died of cardiac arrest in 1993 in Kauai, Hawaii.

Evslin's Monsters of Mythology series, published between 1987 and 1991, retold many stories from ancient mythology, often by altering the plot of the stories. The titles include:

• Anteus
• Amycus
• The Adventures of Ulysses
• The Calydonian Boar
• Cerberus
• The Chimaera
• The Cyclopes
• Drabne of Dole
• The Dragon of Boetia
• Fafnir
• Fenris
• The Furies
• Geryon
• Harpalyce
• Hecate
• The Hydra
• Ladon
• Medusa
• The Minotaur
• The Nemean Lion
• Pig's Ploughman
• Procrustes
• Scylla and Charybdis
• The Sirens
• The Spear-Birds
• The Sphinx