- Joshua Prager (writer)
Joshua Harris Prager (born 1971) is a reporter for the "
Wall Street Journal " and author of the book "The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World", about the Shot Heard 'Round the World, a famous 1951 baseballplayoff game between theBrooklyn Dodgers and theNew York Giants .Prager often writes of secrets. He revealed the unknown heir of
Margaret Wise Brown , author of the classic children's book "Goodnight Moon ". [cite news | title=Runaway Money | author = Joshua Prager | publisher =Wall Street Journal | page=A1 | date=September 8 ,2000 | url=http://joshuaprager.com/wsj/articles/goodnightmoon/] He confirmed the decades-long rumor that theNew York Giants had stolen signs en route to the 1951 pennant. [cite news | title=Inside Baseball: Giants' 1951 Comeback, The Sport's Greatest, Wasn't All It Seemed --- Miracle Ended With 'The Shot Heard Round the World' |author = Joshua Prager | publisher =Wall Street Journal | page=A1 | date=January 31 ,2001 | url=http://joshuaprager.com/wsj/articles/baseball/] . And he tracked down the Iranian photographerJahangir Razmi , the only anonymous winner in the history of thePulitzer Prizes [cite news | title=A Chilling Photograph's Hidden History | author = Joshua Prager | publisher =Wall Street Journal | page=A1 | date=December 2 ,2006 | url=http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116499510215538266-w6oLtTyb6LO2glORvqxTV1PwiTM_20061211.html?mod=blogs] .Personal background
Born in
Eagle Butte ,South Dakota , Prager attended the Moriah School inEnglewood, New Jersey and attended high school at theRamaz School inManhattan . [Cohen, Irwin. [http://www.jewishpress.com/displayContent_new.cfm?contentid=20624&mode=a§ionid=15&contentname=Baseball_Is_Dull_Only_To_Those_With_Dull_Minds&recnum=9&subid=20729 "Baseball Is Dull Only To Those With Dull Minds"] , "The Jewish Press ",February 7 ,2007 . "The best book you can get about Thomson’s homer, the 1951 season, the players, sign-stealing and more is Joshua Prager’s The Echoing Green. Prager, who grew up in New Jersey, went to Moriah Day School, Ramaz High School and spent a year in yeshiva after high school before going on to college and a writing career with The Wall Street Journal."]Prager is the son of
Columbia University physician and medical ethics expertKenneth Prager and the nephew of commentatorDennis Prager . [http://www.lukeford.net/Dennis/p31398.html]References
External links
* [http://www.joshuaprager.com/ Official website]
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/pantheon/catalog/results2.pperl?authorid=24439 Random House bio]
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