Roger Angell was a renowned baseball writer who was a regular contributor to The New Yorker.
- Died: Friday, May 20, 2022. (Who else died on May 20?)
- Details of death: Died from heart failure at the age of 101.
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New Yorker Writer
Roger Angell was the son of Katharine White, the first fiction editor of The New Yorker, and the stepson of the magazine’s longtime staff writer E.B. White. He became the chief fiction editor for the magazine in the 1950s, working with John Updike and Ann Beattie. His first essay on baseball was published in 1962 when he wrote about spring training. His baseball essays were compiled into collections such as “The Summer Game” in 1972. At the age of 93, he won a National Magazine Award for his essay “This Old Man.” He also was awarded the first PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing.
Notable Quote
“I’ve endured a few knocks but missed worse,” he wrote. “The pains and insults are bearable. My conversation may be full of holes and pauses, but I’ve learned to dispatch a private Apache scout ahead into the next sentence, the one coming up, to see if there are any vacant names or verbs in the landscape up there. If he sends back a warning, I’ll pause meaningfully, duh, until something else comes to mind.” Angell wrote in an essay, according to NPR
Tributes to Roger Angell
Full Obituary: NPR
