Ben Yagoda
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Ben Yagoda (born February 22, 1954) is an American writer and educator. He is a professor of journalism and English at the University of Delaware.
Early life and education
Born in New York City to Louis Yagoda (1909–1990), a labor mediator and arbitrator with the New York State Mediation Board, visiting lecturer at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and a former organizer for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, and Harriet (née Lewis),[1][2] he grew up in New Rochelle, New York. He entered Yale University to study English in 1971 and graduated in 1976 with a bachelor of arts. He later earned an M.A. in American civilization at the University of Pennsylvania, in 1991.[3]
Career
He became a freelance journalist for publications such as The New Leader, The New York Times, Newsweek, and Rolling Stone. He has published a number of books including About Town: The New Yorker and the World it Made.
Besides his work as a journalism and English professor at the University of Delaware, Yagoda also writes occasionally for a New York Times blog about the English language.[4]
He currently has a monthly podcast called The Lives They're Living with Ben Yagoda.
Personal life
Yagoda resides in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, with his wife. They have two daughters.
Selected bibliography
- Will Rogers: A Biography (Alfred A. Knopf, 1993, Template:ISBN)
- The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism (Scribner, 1997, Template:ISBN), co-edited with Kevin Kerrane
- About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made (Scribner, 2000, Template:ISBN)
- The Sound on the Page: Style and Voice in Writing (HarperResource, 2004, Template:ISBN)
- When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better and/or Worse (Broadway Books, 2007, Template:ISBN)
- Memoir: A History (Riverhead Books, 2008, Template:ISBN)
- How to Not Write Bad: The Most Common Writing Problems and How to Avoid Them (Riverhead Books, 2013, Template:ISBN)
- The B-Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song (Riverhead Books, 2015, Template:ISBN)
Notes
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External links
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- Ben Yagoda papers, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
- Ben Yagoda, "My Life as a Hack. It was glorious. Now it's over" at Slate, August 26, 2005, announcing retirement from freelance journalism
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- Living people
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