Nicholas Dawidoff is the author of six books, most recently The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, And The American City. Each of his books has won or been a finalist for prizes including The American Society of Journalists and Authors nonfiction book award; the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for excellence in journalism, the Pulitzer Prize, the Kenneth Johnson Book Award for outstanding literary writing about mental illness and the PEN book award for literary sports-writing. His first book, The Catcher Was A Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg was a national bestseller and was made into a film starring Paul Rudd and Paul Giamatti. His articles appear in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic and the Ideas section of the The Boston Globe. Father of two, husband of Kaari Pitkin, member of the Advisory Board of the Wesleyan (University) Center for Prison Education, a member of the Honorary Council of the Board of Directors of the MacDowell artist’s residency program, and a board member of Hopkins School.