Nicholas Dawidoff

Nicholas Dawidoff (born November 30, 1962) 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. Education and Career 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 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.