Roger Angell (born September 19, 1920) is an American essayist. He has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker and was its chief fiction editor for many years. He has written many essays on baseball as well as numerous fiction, non-fiction, and criticism pieces, and formerly wrote an annual Christmas poem for the magazine.
Angell is the son of editor and author Katharine Sergeant Angell White and the stepson of renowned essayist E. B. White, but was raised for the most part by his father, Ernest Angell. He is a 1938 graduate of the Pomfret School and attended Harvard University. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007. Angell was honored with the inaugural PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing in 2011.
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