ROGER ANGELL joined The New Yorker as a fiction editor in 1962. He is the author of seven celebrated baseball books, including Game Time: A Baseball Companion. He lives in New York and Maine.
PRAISE FOR ROGER ANGELL
"Roger Angell . . . comes from the magazine writer's school of
sportswriting: calm, meditative, not deadline driven or space
cramped, free to follow the fast-and-slow, squeeze-and-relax
rhythms of the game."-TIME "Angell is the best baseball essayist
around. His relaxed prose glides across the page with a confident
grace that most writers-let alone baseball writers-would kill
for."-CHICAGO TRIBUNE
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Over the past few years, New Yorker readers have been treated to the occasional personal reflection from Angell, stepping outside his usual baseball beat to write about such intimacies as his passion for sailing or his childhood fascination with the movies. It's the family drama that's of most immediate interest, as Angell recalls the divorce of his parents, Ernest and Katherine Angell, and his mother's subsequent remarriage to E.B. White, affectionately known as Andy. Or perhaps readers will be more eager to hear about life at the New Yorker, especially since Angell admits, "I no longer expect to write" much more about his fellow writers and editors than the miniature portraits collected here (but thankfully we do have such scenes as the visit he and S.J. Perelman paid to W. Somerset Maugham while vacationing in France in 1949). Whatever the subject, Angell writes with his customary elegance and modesty; "I've kept quiet about my trifling army career all these years," he says in one essay, just before spinning off a series of captivating anecdotes about his WWII service. The assembled pieces add up to a fine memoir. (May 8) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
PRAISE FOR ROGER ANGELL
"Roger Angell . . . comes from the magazine writer's school of
sportswriting: calm, meditative, not deadline driven or space
cramped, free to follow the fast-and-slow, squeeze-and-relax
rhythms of the game."-TIME "Angell is the best baseball essayist
around. His relaxed prose glides across the page with a confident
grace that most writers-let alone baseball writers-would kill
for."-CHICAGO TRIBUNE
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