Ben Yagoda

Ben Yagoda
speaking at the Third Coast Audio Festival - 21 October 2005
Born	22 February 1954 (1954-02-22)
Education	Yale University
Notable credit(s)	The New Leader, The New York Times, Newsweek, and Rolling Stone

Ben Yagoda (born 22 February 1954 in New York City) is a professor of journalism and English at the University of Delaware.

Born to Louis Yagoda and the former Harriet Lewis, he grew up in New Rochelle, New York, and entered Yale University to study English in 1971. He became a freelance journalist for publications such as The New Leader, The New York Times, Newsweek, and Rolling Stone, and published a number of books including About Town: The New Yorker and the World it Made. Yagoda currently lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania with his wife and two daughters.

Selected bibliography

• Will Rogers: A Biography (Alfred A. Knopf, 1993; University of Oklahoma Press)
• The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism (Scribner, 1997, ISBN 0-684-83041-8), coedited with Kevin Kerrane
• About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made (Scribner, 2000, ISBN 0-684-81605-9)
• The Sound on the Page: Style and Voice in Writing (HarperResource, 2004, ISBN 0-066-21417-3)
• When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better and/or Worse (Broadway Books, 2007, ISBN 0-767-92077-5)

External links

• Ben Yagoda's Homepage
• Appearances on C-SPAN
  • Booknotes interview with Yagoda on Will Rogers: A Biography, September 25, 1994.
• Ben Yagoda on Charlie Rose
• Ben Yagoda at the Internet Movie Database
• Works by or about Ben Yagoda in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• My Life as a Hack. It was glorious. Now it's over. at Slate, August 26, 2005, announcing retirement from freelance journalism