Kahn, Roger

LC control no.	n 78078776
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PS3561.A39
Personal name heading	Kahn, Roger *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Located	New York (N.Y.)
Birth date	1927-10-31
Death date	2020-02-06
Place of birth	New York (N.Y.)
Place of death	Mamaroneck (N.Y.)
Field of activity	Sports journalism American fiction
Found in	His The Mutual baseball almanac, 1954. Information from 678 converted Jan. 5, 2015 (b. Oct. 31, 1927) The Roger Kahn reader, 2018: ECIP title page (Roger Kahn) Washington post WWW site, viewed Feb. 7, 2020 (in obituary dated Feb. 7, 2020: Roger Kahn, an author best known for "The Boys of Summer," a first-person account of his hometown of Brooklyn and the Dodger baseball teams of the 1950s, died on Feb. 6 in Mamaroneck, N.Y. He was 92. Roger Kahn was born Oct. 31, 1927, in Brooklyn. He attended New York University and began his career in 1948 at the Herald Tribune, where four years later he was assigned to the Dodgers beat. He left the paper in the mid-1950s to become sports editor at Newsweek and a contributor to the old Saturday Evening Post. Mr. Kahn was the author of almost 20 books, including "A Flame of Pure Fire" (1999), a biography of the 1920s boxing champion Jack Dempsey; "Good Enough to Dream" (1985), about his year as owner of a minor league baseball team in Utica, N.Y.; "The Passionate People: What It Means to Be a Jew in America" (1968); and "Joe and Marilyn," a 1986 book about the marriage of baseball star Joe DiMaggio and Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe. Mr. Kahn published two novels. Throughout his writing life, Mr. Kahn returned again and again to the theme of baseball, the Dodgers and New York City)
Associated language	eng