BIOGRAPHY FELLOW 2024 – 2025

Nicholas Dawidoff

For a biography of Robert Frank

Nicholas Dawidoff is the author of six books, most recently The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, And The American City which won The American Bar Association’s book award (the Silver Gavel); won The American Society of Journalists and Authors nonfiction book award; and was a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for excellence in journalism. Among his other books are The Catcher Was A Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg; In The Country of Country: A Journey To The Roots of American Music; and The Fly Swatter: Portrait of an Exceptional Character, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Berlin Prize fellow of the American Academy, an Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University, and an Art For Justice Fellow. Dawidoff will be working on a biography of photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank, which will be published by Penguin-Random House.