Nicholas Dawidoff is an American writer.
Dawidoff was born in New York City, and grew up in New Haven, Connecticut with his mother and sister.
His father’s struggles with mental illness left him without a prominent male figure from an early age – a painful subject he explores in an article for The New Yorker called My Father’s Troubles.He graduated from the Hopkins School and attended Harvard University, graduating magna cum laude in 1985 with a degree in history and literature. He moved back to New York to pursue a career as a writer and began working at Sports Illustrated, where he became a staff writer covering baseball and the environment.
In 1989, he was selected as a Henry Luce Scholar and spent a year in Bangkok, Thailand, writing for the Bangkok Post and teaching American Studies at Chulalongkorn University. In 1991 he resigned from Sports Illustrated and began writing books. He continues to write articles, on a variety of topics, for periodicals like Rolling Stone, The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine.
Dawidoff has also been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Civitella Ranieri Fellow, as well as a Berlin Prize Fellow of the American Academy. In 2008 he was the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University. He has also taught at Sarah Lawrence and is now a Branford Fellow at Yale University. He is a member of the board of directors of the MacDowell Colony.
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