Writer and editor, born in New York City, New York, USA. He studied at Harvard (1942), and served in the US Air Force (19426). He was a senior editor at Holiday Magazine (194756) and a fiction editor and general contributor to the New Yorker (1956). Considered the dean of baseball writers, his books include The Summer Game (1972), Season Ticket (1988), and Once More Around the Park (1991). He received the George Polk Award for commentary (1981).
Roger Angell (born September 19, 1920), is an important figure in the world of American letters, having spent the vast majority of his career as a fiction editor and regular contributor at The New Yorker.
Essays and books
Angell's earliest published works were pieces of short fiction and personal narratives.
Since then, Angell has translated a lifetime passion for baseball into a steady stream of elegantly written essays, most of which were originally published in The New Yorker, where he has worked as an editor since 1956. Many of these essays have been collected in a series of critically acclaimed, best-selling books:
The Summer Game (1972, ISBN 0-670-68164-4) Five Seasons (1977, ISBN 0-671-22743-2) Late Innings (1982, ISBN 0-671-42567-6) Season Ticket (1988, ISBN 0-395-38165-7) Once More Around the Park (1991, ISBN 0-345-36737-5) Game Time, edited by Steve Kettmann, with an introduction by Richard Ford (2003, ISBN 0-156-01387-8) Let Me Finish (2006, ISBN 0-151-01350-0)
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