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 battle with mental illness left him without a prominent male figure from an early age – a painful subject he explores in a celebrated article for The New Yorker called My Father’s Troubles, June 12 2000 (Father’s Day). A full text reprint (by permission of the author) is available here. He graduated from The Hopkins School and the attended Harvard University, graduating 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 Magazine, where he developed his story-telling technique. He was selected as a Henry Luce Scholar and spent a year writing and teaching American Studies in Bangkok, Thailand. In 1991 he resigned from Sports Illustrated and began freelancing. He wrote, and continues to write, on a variety of topics, from politics to travel, for periodicals like The New Republic and The New York Times Magazine, earning supplemental income to allow him to write books. Dawidoff has also been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Civitella Ranieri Fellow, as well as a recent Berlin Prize Fellow of the American Academy in the spring of 2002. He lives in Manhattan. Baseball, a life long passion of Dawidoff’s (he played until a knee injury sophomore year at Harvard), is a main theme and common subject of much of his writing. (more)
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Major League Baseball:
Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball. More specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates North American baseball's two major leagues, the National League and t
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Jazz:
Jazz is an American musical art form which originated around the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions. The style's West African pedigree
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Harvard University:
Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, op. cit. Harvard i
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Baseball:
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four markers called bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot squa
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History:
History is the study of the past, particularly the written record of the human race, but more generally including scientific and archaeological discoveries about the past. Recently, there has been an increased interest in oral histories and tradition
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Connecticut:
Connecticut ( ) is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. Portions of southwestern Connecticut are also considered part of the New York metropolitan area. Connecticut is the 29th most populous state wi
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Manhattan:
Manhattan (coterminous with New York County) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. With a 2007 population of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles (59.47 km²), it is the most densely populated county in the United States at 70
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Blues:
Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes. It emerged in African-American communities of the United States from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads. Th
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The New Yorker:
The New Yorker is an American magazine that publishes reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Starting as a weekly in the mid-1920s, the magazine is now published 47 times per year, with five (usually more exp
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Sports Illustrated:
Sports Illustrated is the largest weekly American sports magazine owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. It has over 3 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men, 19% of the adult males in the Unit
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