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Nicholas Dawidoff

NICHOLAS DAWIDOFF is the author of the national bestseller THE CATCHER WAS A SPY: THE MYSTERIOUS LIFE OF MOE BERG on which the feature film was based. His biographical memoir of his economist grandfather, THE FLY SWATTER: PORTRAIT OF AN EXCEPTIONAL CHARACTER, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His memoir, COLLISION LOW CROSSERS, won the Kenneth Johnson Book Award for outstanding literary writing about mental illness. COLLISION LOW CROSSERS was a finalist for a PEN America book award and was called “an instant classic” by The New York Times. He has been a Henry Luce Scholar, a Guggenheim Fellow, a Berlin Prize fellow of the American Academy, an Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University, and is a Davenport Fellow at Yale University. His articles appear in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine.