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Roger Angell

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American essayist

United StatesJournalistsLived 1920 to 2022 · aged 101
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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.

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1980George Polk Award
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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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."

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United States
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Journalists
Type
Journalist
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deceased
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Lived 1920 to 2022 · aged 101
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