Roger Angell has developed a broad and devoted following through his writings in the New Yorker and as the leading baseball writer of our time. Turning to more personal matters, he has produced a fresh form of auto-biography in this unsentimental look at his early days as a boy growing up in Prohibition-era New York with a remarkable father; a mother, Katherine White, who was a founding editor of the New Yorker; and a famous stepfather, the writer E. B. White. Intimate, funny, and moving portraits form the book's centerpiece as Angell remembers his eccentric relatives, his childhood love of baseball in the time of Ruth and Gehrig and DiMaggio, and his vivid colleagues during his long career as a New Yorker writer and editor. Infused with both pleasure and sadness, Angell's disarming memoir also evokes a sensuous attachment to life's better moments.
About the Author
A 1942 graduate of Harvard, Angell joined The New Yorker in 1962. Roger Angell's celebrated baseball books include The Summer Game, Five Seasons, Late Innings, Season Ticket, and One More Around The Park. Angell has also authored The Stone Arbor (stories) as well as A Day in the Life of Roger Angell (casuals) and worked as an editor on the collection Nothing But You: Love Stories from the New Yorker. He an editor and writer with The New Yorker and his most recent book, A Pitcher's Story is now available in paperback.
