The fly swatter: portrait of an exceptional character - nicholas dawidoff

Nicholas Dawidoff is the author of The Catcher was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg and In the Country of Country: A Journey to the Roots of American Music , and is the editor of the Library of Americas Baseball: A Literary Anthology .

He is also a contributor to The New Yorker, The American Scholar, and The New York Times Magazine .

A graduate of Harvard University, he has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Berlin Prize Fellow of the American Academy.

He and his wife live in New York.