Roger Angell (1920–2022)
Autor von The Summer Game
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Roger Angell lives in New York City. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Angell, Roger
- Geburtstag
- 1920-09-19
- Todestag
- 2022-05-20
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- New York, New York, USA
- Sterbeort
- New York, New York, USA
- Todesursache
- Congestive Heart Failure
- Wohnorte
- New York, New York, USA
Brooklin, Maine, USA - Ausbildung
- Harvard University (BA|1942)
- Berufe
- editor
writer - Beziehungen
- White, Katharine S. (mother)
White, E. B. (stepfather)
Angell, Callie (daughter)
Angell, Ernest (father) - Organisationen
- Holiday
The New Yorker
Authors Guild
Army Air Corps - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement (2005)
J. G. Taylor Spink Award (2014)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2015)
PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing (2011)
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Roger Angell is, or rather was, a celebrated Baseball writer who did most of his writing from the fan’s perspective. This book had been on my reading list for probably 10 years or so and it took me this long to get to it. Which says something about how long my reading list is and why I haven’t read that one book you recommended to me a couple years ago yet. What made The Summer Game so surprisingly interesting to me was that a good portion of it deals with the first few seasons of the Baltimore Orioles as they try to patch together a contending team. For me, the book shadowed my experience of becoming a shiny new real fan of baseball and the Orioles this year. I picked them randomly based on a completely subjective set of criteria and what I accidentally got in return was a surprising club that looked to be on the rise at last. I knew none of this at the time, of course, but neither did Angell realize what Baltimore was going to do with their seasons at the time he wrote about them. So, in that way the book was a pleasing echo.… (mehr)