Kahn, Roger, 1927-

Roger Kahn was born in 1927, grew up in Brooklyn and rooted for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He joined the New York Herold Tribune in 1948 and began covering the Dodgers in 1952. In 1956, Kahn was named sports editor of Newsweek magazine and became editor-at-large for the Saturday Evening Post from 1963 to 1969. In 1972, he published 'The Boys of Summer', which became the country's number one best seller. Mr. Kahn is the author of twenty books and hundreds of articles. He has taught writing at various colleges and lectured at Yale, Princeton and Columbia universities.