Their son, Roger, committed suicide in 1987. 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.
Roger Kahn (born October 31, 1927) is an American author, best known for his 1972 baseball book The Boys of Summer.
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.
Kahn died in Sarah Newman nursing home Mamaroneck, New York in February 2020 at the age of 92.
Their son, Gordon Jacques, was born in 1957. Kahn married his second wife, Alice Lippincott Russell, in 1963; they divorced in 1974.
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.
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.
Not to be confused with Roger Angell. Roger Kahn (October 31, 1927 – February 6, 2020) was an American author, best known for his 1972 baseball book The Boys of Summer .
Kahn cited as his journalistic influences, Stanley Woodward, John Lardner, and Red Smith .
It covers the younger Kahn's bipolar disorder, heroin addiction, and time he spent with the educator Michael DeSisto at the DeSisto School; who committed suicide via carbon monoxide poisoning in 1987. Andrew Ervin wrote in The Washington Post that the book "proves that Kahn's not only a great baseball writer but also something rarer: a great writer whose subject happens to be baseball."
Two more clients of the late Dennis Alan Kahn, once a widely known Buffalo personal injury, medical malpractice and product liability lawyer, are among 38 New York State residents recently reimbursed about $2.3 million by the States’ Lawyers Fund for Client Protection in the latest reimbursements issued to the victims of dishonest legal work, it was announced Monday..
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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
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 …
• 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.
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. Their son, Roger, committed suicide in 1987.
• Mutual Baseball Almanac (1955), edited with Al Helfer
• The World of John Lardner (1961), edited
• Inside Big League Baseball (1962)
• The Passionate People: What it Means to be a Jew in America (1968)
Ruttman, Larry (2013). "Roger Kahn: Author of the Classic Baseball Book The Boys of Summer". American Jews and America's Game: Voices of a Growing Legacy in Baseball. Lincoln, Nebraska and London, England: University of Nebraska Press. pp. 113–123. ISBN 978-0-8032-6475-5. This chapter in Ruttman's history, based on September 30, 2007 and January 31, 2008 interviews with Kahn conducted for the book, discusses Kahn's American, Jewish, baseball, and life experience…
• Official website
• Roger Kahn at Library of Congress Authorities, with 29 catalog records