Nicholas Dawidoff
<DIV><B>Nicholas Dawidoff</B> is the author of four previous critically acclaimed books, including the bestselling <I>The Catcher Was a Spy</I> and <I>The Crowd Sounds Happy</I>. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Civitella Ranieri Fellow, a Berlin Prize Fellow of the American Academy, and an Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University, and is now a Branford Fellow at Yale University. <br><br> A Pulitzer Prize finalist (for <I>The Fly Swatter</I>), Dawidoff is a contributor to the <I>New Yorker,</I> the <I>New York Times Magazine,</I> and <I>Rolling Stone</I>. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with his family.</DIV>