- Ben Yagoda
Ben Yagoda (born
22 February 1954 inNew York City ) is a professor ofjournalism at theUniversity of Delaware .Born to Louis Yagoda and the former Harriet Lewis, he grew up in
New Rochelle, New York and enteredYale University to study English in 1971. He became a freelance journalist for publications such as "The New Leader ", "The New York Times ", "Newsweek ", and "Rolling Stone ", and published a number of books including "About Town:" The New Yorker "and the World it Made". Yagoda currently lives inSwarthmore, Pennsylvania with his wife and two daughters.elected bibliography
*"Will Rogers: A Biography" (
Alfred A. Knopf , 1993;University of Oklahoma Press )
*"The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism" (Scribner, 1997, ISBN 0 684 83041 8), coedited withKevin Kerrane
*"About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made" (Scribner , 2000, ISBN 0 684 81605 9)
*"The Sound on the Page: Style and Voice in Writing" (HarperResource, 2004, ISBN 0 066 21417 3)
*"When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better and/or Worse" (Broadway Books , 2007, ISBN 0 767 92077 5)External links
* [http://www.benyagoda.com Ben Yagoda's Homepage]
* [http://www.slate.com/id/2125089/?nav=tap3 My Life as a Hack. It was glorious. Now it's over.] atSlate , announcing retirement from freelance journalism
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