Nicholas Dawidoff
Nicholas Dawidoff (born November 30, 1962) is a writer and journalist. He was born in New York City, grew up in New Haven, Connecticut, and graduated from Harvard University in 1985 with a degree in history and literature. He was a staff writer at Sports Illustrated before turning to books in 1991, and he has since written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic and The New York Times Magazine. His books include The Catcher Was a Spy (1994), a biography of baseball player and spy Moe Berg, and The Fly Swatter (2002), a memoir of his grandfather that was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. His 1998 book In the Country of Country: A Journey to the Roots of Music examines country music's history, places and performers. For it he interviewed and traveled with Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, George Jones and Kitty Wells, and with relatives and acquaintances of Jimmie Rodgers, Patsy Cline and the original Carter Family. In the book he describes Sara Carter as the real star of the Carter Family. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University, and he has taught at Sarah Lawrence College.
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- No. 27 September 2001