# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roger-angell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:15:09.449Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roger-angell"
name: "Roger Angell"
slug: "roger-angell"
description: "Roger Angell was an American essayist known for his writing on sports, especially baseball. He was a regular contributor to The New Yorker and was its chief fiction editor for many years. He wrote numerous works of fiction, non-fiction, and criticism, and for many years wrote an annual Christmas poem for The New Yorker. Sportswriter Jane Leavy called him \"the Babe Ruth of baseball writers.\""
tagline: "American essayist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roger_Angell_March_2015.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1920-09-19"
deathDate: "2022-05-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.24
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.330350666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0029642/"
    handle:    "nm0029642"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Angell"
    title: "Roger Angell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AC%D8%B1_%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%BA%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "روجر أنغيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AC%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "روجر انجيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Angell"
    title: "Roger Angell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Angell"
    title: "Roger Angell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15531308"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2619504"
    title: "Roger Angell"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump