Nicholas DawidoffNicholas Dawidoff is the author of several books, including The Fly Swatter, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and another, In the Country of Country, which was named one of the greatest all-time works of travel literature byConde Nast Traveller, as well as the New York Times bestseller The Catcher Was a Spy. A graduate of Harvard University, he has been a Guggenheim, Civitella Ranieri, and Berlin Prize Fellow, and is a contributor to the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and the American Scholar. Read More Read Less