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Roger Kahn
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| Born | October 31, 1927 Brooklyn, New York City, U.S. |
| Died | February 6, 2020 (aged 92) Mamaroneck, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Notable works | The Boys of Summer |
Roger Kahn (October 31, 1927 – February 6, 2020) was an American author, best known for his 1972 baseball book The Boys of Summer.
Biography
Roger Kahn was born in Brooklyn, New York, on October 31, 1927, to Olga (née Rockow) and Gordon Jacques Kahn, a teacher and editor. He attended Froebel Academy, a prep school, then Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn. He attended New York University from 1944–1947.
In 2004, he was named as the fourth James H. Ottaway Sr. Visiting Professor of Journalism at SUNY New Paltz. He was a lecturer at Yale University, Princeton University, and Columbia University.
Writing career
Kahn began his newspaper career in 1948, when he took a job as copy boy for the New York Herald Tribune. A keen Brooklyn Dodgers fan, he reported on their games over the 1952 and 1953 seasons. He became sports editor for Newsweek in 1956, and editor-at-large of the Saturday Evening Post in 1963. His best-known book is The Boys of Summer (1972), which examines his relationship with his father as seen through the prism of their shared affection for the Brooklyn Dodgers. In 2002, a Sports Illustrated panel placed The Boys of Summer second on a list of "The Top 100 Sports Books of All Time".
In addition to The Boys of Summer, Kahn wrote books such as Good Enough to Dream, a chronicle of his year as the owner of a minor league baseball franchise; The Era 1947–57, an examination of the decade during which the three New York clubs – the Dodgers, Yankees and Giants – dominated Major League Baseball; and Memories of Summer, a look back at his youth and early career, plus extended pieces on New York baseball legends Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle. He also wrote a biography of the heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey, entitled A Flame of Pure Fire.
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Kahn cited as his journalistic influences, Stanley Woodward, John Lardner, and Red Smith.
Honors, awards, distinctions
- Kahn was inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame on April 30, 2006.
- He won the E. P. Dutton Award for best sports magazine article of the year five times.
Personal life
Kahn married Joan Rappaport in 1950; they divorced in 1963. Their first child, daughter Elizabeth, died one day after her birth in 1954. Their son, Gordon Jacques, was born in 1957. Kahn married his second wife, Alice Lippincott Russell, in 1963; they divorced in 1974. They had a son, Roger Laurence, in 1964, and a daughter, Alissa Avril, in 1967. .....
Kahn lived in the Hudson Valley community of Stone Ridge, New York, with his third wife, Katharine Colt Johnson, a psychotherapist, whom he married in 1989.
Kahn died in Sarah Newman nursing home Mamaroneck, New York, in February 2020, at the age of 92.
See also
In Spanish: Roger Kahn para niños
