Roger Angell Papers : papers 1960-1998.

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Roger Angell Papers : papers 1960-1998.

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Roger Angell is the senior fiction editor and eminent baseball essayist for the New Yorker magazine. Typescripts, galley proofs, notes, audio recordings, media notes, press releases, clippings, programs, photographs and correspondence document the author's creative process over 38 years. Series I has 62 boxes and is the most extensive of the series. It consists of typescript drafts of Angell's creative works at various stages accompanied by related notes, transcripts, scorecards, audio recordings, media interviews. His game notes are extensive and the bulk is composed of media notes and press releases. Series II contains a typescript, correspondence, notes and reviews related to the publishing of Five Seasons. Series III documents the writing of some of Angell's other New Yorker pieces, including movie reviews and sports-related essays. Series IV is arranged into two subseries: Reader mail and personal/professional correspondence. Series V includes unidentified and miscellaneous documents.

67 boxes : (27 linear feet)

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Angell, Roger.

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Roger Angell's evocative essays span over forty years and are told from a fan's perspective. Angell showed an interest in publishing at an early age and became editor of his school newspaper. In 1942, he graduated from Harvard and went on to write and edit short stories and essays for the next decade. He joined the staff of The New Yorker in 1956 as a fiction editior. In 1962, The New Yorker invited Angell to attend spring training and write on baseball. Since that time, Angell has written two t...