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 struggles with mental illness left him without a prominent male figure from an early age – a painful subject he explores in an article for The New Yorker called My Father’s Troubles.
In 1989, he was selected as a Henry Luce Scholar and spent a year in Bangkok, Thailand, writing for the Bangkok Post and teaching American Studies at Chulalongkorn University.
He is the author of six books and writes articles on a variety of topics, for periodicals like The New Yorker, the Ideas Section of The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine.