Roger Angell (born September 19, 1920) is an American essayist known for his writing on sports, especially baseball.
White, but was raised for the most part by his father, Ernest Angell, an attorney who became head of the American Civil Liberties Union. Angell is a 1938 graduate of the Pomfret School and attended Harvard University.
Several of these pieces were collected in The Stone Arbor and Other Stories (1960) and A Day in the Life of Roger Angell (1970). In 1948, Angell was employed at Holiday Magazine, a travel magazine that featured literary writers. He first contributed to The New Yorker in March 1944 and continued to contribute into 2020. He first wrote professionally about baseball in 1962, when William Shawn, editor of The New Yorker, had him travel to Florida to write about spring training.
Several of these pieces were collected in The Stone Arbor and Other Stories (1960) and A Day in the Life of Roger Angell (1970). In 1948, Angell was employed at Holiday Magazine, a travel magazine that featured literary writers. He first contributed to The New Yorker in March 1944 and continued to contribute into 2020. He first wrote professionally about baseball in 1962, when William Shawn, editor of The New Yorker, had him travel to Florida to write about spring training.
Several of these pieces were collected in The Stone Arbor and Other Stories (1960) and A Day in the Life of Roger Angell (1970). In 1948, Angell was employed at Holiday Magazine, a travel magazine that featured literary writers. He first contributed to The New Yorker in March 1944 and continued to contribute into 2020. He first wrote professionally about baseball in 1962, when William Shawn, editor of The New Yorker, had him travel to Florida to write about spring training.
Another essay of Angell, "The Web of the Game", about the epic pitchers' duel between future major-leaguers Ron Darling and Frank Viola in the 1981 NCAA baseball tournament, was called "perhaps the greatest baseball essay ever penned" by ESPN journalist Ryan McGee in 2021.
Angell contributed commentary to the Ken Burns series Baseball, in 1994. ==Personal life== Angell has three children: Callie, Alice, and John Henry.
Callie Angell, who was an authority on the films of Andy Warhol, committed suicide on May 5, 2010, in Manhattan, where she worked as a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art; she was 62.
In a 2014 essay, Angell mentioned her death – "the oceanic force and mystery of that event" – and his struggle to comprehend that "a beautiful daughter of mine, my oldest child, had ended her life." Alice Angell lived in Portland, Maine and died from cancer on February 2, 2019, and John Henry Angell lives in Portland, Oregon. His second wife, Carol Rogge Angell, to whom he was married for 48 years, died on April 10, 2012, of metastatic breast cancer at the age of 73.
Taylor Spink Award by the Baseball Writers' Association of America on December 10, 2013. ==Early life and education== Angell is the son of Katharine Sergeant Angell White, The New Yorker’s first fiction editor, and the stepson of renowned essayist E. B.
In a 2014 essay, Angell mentioned her death – "the oceanic force and mystery of that event" – and his struggle to comprehend that "a beautiful daughter of mine, my oldest child, had ended her life." Alice Angell lived in Portland, Maine and died from cancer on February 2, 2019, and John Henry Angell lives in Portland, Oregon. His second wife, Carol Rogge Angell, to whom he was married for 48 years, died on April 10, 2012, of metastatic breast cancer at the age of 73.
In 2014, he married Margaret Moorman, a writer and teacher, as noted in the Ellsworth American newspaper.
In a 2014 essay, Angell mentioned her death – "the oceanic force and mystery of that event" – and his struggle to comprehend that "a beautiful daughter of mine, my oldest child, had ended her life." Alice Angell lived in Portland, Maine and died from cancer on February 2, 2019, and John Henry Angell lives in Portland, Oregon. His second wife, Carol Rogge Angell, to whom he was married for 48 years, died on April 10, 2012, of metastatic breast cancer at the age of 73.
Several of these pieces were collected in The Stone Arbor and Other Stories (1960) and A Day in the Life of Roger Angell (1970). In 1948, Angell was employed at Holiday Magazine, a travel magazine that featured literary writers. He first contributed to The New Yorker in March 1944 and continued to contribute into 2020. He first wrote professionally about baseball in 1962, when William Shawn, editor of The New Yorker, had him travel to Florida to write about spring training.
Another essay of Angell, "The Web of the Game", about the epic pitchers' duel between future major-leaguers Ron Darling and Frank Viola in the 1981 NCAA baseball tournament, was called "perhaps the greatest baseball essay ever penned" by ESPN journalist Ryan McGee in 2021.
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