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Longtime New Yorker writer, editor Roger Angell dies
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FILE - Author Roger Angell gestures during an interview at his office at the New Yorker magazine on April 4, 2006, in New York. Angell, a longtime New Yorker writer and editor, has died the New Yorker announced Friday, May 20, 2022. He was 101. Angell, the son of founding New Yorker editor Katharine White and stepson of E.B. White, contributed hundreds of essays and stories to the magazine over a 70-year career. - photo by AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File
NEW YORK (AP) — Roger Angell, a famed baseball writer and reigning man of letters who during an unfaltering 70-plus years helped define The New Yorker’s urbane wit and style through his essays, humor pieces and editing, has died. He was 101. Angell died Friday of heart failure, according to The New Yorker.