Nicholas Dawidoff is the author of four previous critically acclaimed books, including the bestselling The Catcher Was a Spy and The Crowd Sounds Happy. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Civitella Ranieri Fellow, a Berlin Prize Fellow of the American Academy, and an Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University, and is now a Branford Fellow at Yale University.
A Pulitzer Prize finalist (for The Fly Swatter), Dawidoff is a contributor to the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and Rolling Stone. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with his family.
Shortlisted for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing"An
instant classic of the genre.... A triumph... of immersion and
portraiture." -- The New York Times Book Review
"Collision Low Crossers is a book that I would highly recommend not
just for lovers of sports writing, but for lovers of intelligent
writing that sheds new light on something so universal in the
average American's life that the average American might never
notice. This is a wonderful book by a talented writer I hope to
read more from in the future." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Collision Low Crossers is the best book ever written about
football and I'm in awe." -- Wright Thompson, Senior Writer,
ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine
"A fascinating, incisive look at football, written in prose that
soars like a perfect pass." -- Shelf Awareness, "The Best Books of
2013"
"A quality piece of embedded analytical journalism relayed with
warmth and insight." -- Library Journal
"A rare behind-the-scenes look at what makes a football
organization tick." -- The Washington Post
"A riveting case study." -- New York Times Book Review, "Editor's
Choice"
"A startling, year-long, day-in-and-day-out tale of large men and
obsessive, outsized personalities. Nicholas Dawidoff is a committed
watcher and listener who takes Plimpton's participatory impulse and
applies it in his own artful way, creating an entirely original -
and thoroughly grand - portrait of an NFL team. Before Collision
Low Crossers, it's now quite clear to me, I didn't really
understand pro football at all." -- Ted Conover, author of Newjack:
Guarding Sing Sing and Rolling Nowhere
"Dawidoff is a crack writer, saturating the book with the best of a
year's worth of anecdotes and lacing it with the backgrounds of
coaches and players with an intimacy that begs the question how he
got all this sharp and often moving material.... Dawidoff has a
sure hand with the nature of passion, the rancor and weeping joy
that characterizes every season in the most popular sport in the
country. Insightful, immediate sportswriting. Readers will feel
every bit of the team's frustration and elation." -- Kirkus
(starred review)
"I loved Collision Low Crossers--it's revealing, engrossing,
extremely funny, and about as close as you can come to the NFL
without getting a concussion. With expert reporting and an enviably
light touch, Dawidoff shows the warm heart beating inside the most
dangerous game." -- Chad Harbach, author of The Art of Fielding
"In the hands of a skillful observer such as Dawidoff, the volatile
personalities and intricacies of running a professional football
team become both accessible and understandable." -- The Virginia
Quarterly
"Incredibly engaging and gripping.... What makes Collision Low
Crossers a transcendental read is how thoughtful and thorough a
guide Dawidoff becomes." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Insightful and funny, this is a must read for any sports fan." --
Susanne Jaffe, creative director, Thurber House, for The Columbus
Dispatch
"It is rare indeed that any writer can infiltrate any sports team
so thoroughly as Nicholas Dawidoff has done in Collision Low
Crossers. His access, though, is but the foundation of this sports
tour du force, for his year in the belly of the New York Jets is so
informed with insight and sensitivity alike that it reveals to us
not just the season's secrets of one team, but the complicated
attractions that trap men in football's mean clutches." -- Frank
Deford, commentator, Morning Edition, and author of Over Time: My
Life as a Sportswriter
"May be the best book I've ever read about football." -- Mike
Pesca, NPR's All Things Considered
"Nicholas Dawidoff shows us everything television doesn't. By the
time I finished Collision Low Crossers, I realized that what
happens on the field is only a tiny fraction of a football
season-and hardly the most interesting. It was a huge pleasure to
be led behind the scenes by a writer with such subtlety, wit, and
style." -- Anne Fadiman, author of The Spirit Catches You and You
Fall Down and At Large and At Small
"On every significant American subject there are only a handful of
really good books, and Collision Low Crossers is one of the best
books ever written about sports. Dawidoff takes you into a closed
world of interesting men who are obsessed with how to perfect the
art of football. The book is closely and boldly observed, frankly
reported, ferociously written with both humor and humanity; it
teems with wonderful lines, rich and vivid passages. The end result
is what all coaches long for, the magical pleasure of watching a
perfectly managed game that ends in a great victory." -- Thomas
Powers, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Man Who Kept The
Secrets and The Killing of Crazy Horse
"Superb.... Excellent stuff.... Dawidoff is as good as they come."
-- Newsday
"This is a superlative insider's portrait of one NFL team
(reminiscent of John Feinstein's similar Next Man Up: A Year behind
the Lines (2005), about the Baltimore Ravens), and it's accessible
to casual fans and irresistible to NFL geeks." -- Booklist (starred
review)
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