Editing Roger Angell (section)

== Awards and legacy ==
David Remnick said, “I’m not sure there’s ever been a writer so strong, and an editor so important, all at once, at a magazine since the days of [[H. L. Mencken]] running ''[[The American Mercury]]'',” adding “Roger was a vigorous editor, and an intellect with broad tastes.”<ref name="nytimes1" /> Per his ''[[New York Times]]'' obituary, "Like his mother, Mr. Angell became a New Yorker fiction editor, discovering and nurturing writers, including [[Ann Beattie]], [[Bobbie Ann Mason]] and [[Garrison Keillor]]. For a while he occupied his mother’s old office — an experience, he told an interviewer, that was 'the weirdest thing in the world.' He also worked closely with writers like [[Vladimir Nabokov]], [[John Updike]], [[Donald Barthelme]], [[Ruth Jhabvala]] and [[V.S. Pritchett]]."<ref name="nytimes1" />

Angell received a number of awards for his writing, including the [[George Polk Awards|George Polk Award]] for Commentary in 1980,<ref name=nyk>{{cite magazine |title=Roger Angell |url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/roger_angell/search?contributorName=roger%20angell |department=Contributor Biography |magazine=The New Yorker}}</ref> the ''[[Kenyon Review]]'' Award for Literary Achievement in 2005 along with [[Umberto Eco]],<ref name=kenyon>{{cite web |title=Roger Angell and Umberto Eco |url=http://www.kenyonreview.org/programs/kenyon-review-award-for-literary-achievement/roger-angell-and-umberto-eco/ |publisher=The Kenyon Review |access-date=February 27, 2013}}</ref> and the inaugural [[PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing]] in 2011.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-2011-pen-honorees-in-the-new-yorker|title=The 2011 PEN Honorees in The New Yorker|date=August 10, 2011|magazine=The New Yorker}}</ref> He was a long-time ex-officio member of the council of the [[Authors Guild]],<ref name=nyk /> and was elected a Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 2007.<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web |title=Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A |url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf |publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences |access-date=April 18, 2011}}</ref> His article ''This Old Man'' in ''The New Yorker''<ref name="This Old Man" /> on his "challenges and joys of being 93"<ref name="Nieman2015">{{cite web |title=Checking out the National Magazine Award Winners |url=https://niemanreports.org/stories/checking-out-the-national-magazine-award-winners/ |website=[[Nieman Foundation for Journalism|Nieman Reports]] |access-date=May 21, 2022 |date=February 3, 2015}}</ref> garnered the [[National Magazine Awards#Essays and Criticism|National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism]] in 2015.<ref>{{cite web |title=Winners and Finalists |url=http://www.magazine.org/asme/national-magazine-awards/winners-finalists/recent |website=National Magazine Award 2015 |publisher=[[American Society of Magazine Editors]] |access-date=May 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924045249/http://www.magazine.org:80/asme/national-magazine-awards/winners-finalists/recent |archive-date=September 24, 2015 |format=web.archive.org |url-status=dead}}</ref>
 
He was inducted into the [[Baseball Reliquary]]'s [[Baseball Reliquary#Shrine of the Eternals|Shrine of the Eternals]] in 2010,<ref name="BRSOTE Inductees">{{cite web |url=http://www.baseballreliquary.org/awards/shrine-of-the-eternals/shrine-of-the-eternals-electees |title=Shrine of the Eternals – Inductees |website=Baseball Reliquary |access-date=August 14, 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://baseballroundtable.com/the-baseball-reliquary/ |title=The Baseball Reliquary |website=Baseball Roundtable |access-date=June 13, 2022 }}</ref> and he was the 2014 recipient of the J. G. Taylor Spink Award, now known as the [[BBWAA Career Excellence Award]], of the [[Baseball Writers' Association of America]];<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/10114111/roger-angell-wins-spink-award-baseball-writing|title=Roger Angell wins Spink Award|date=December 10, 2013|website=ESPN.com |agency=AP}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/roger-angell-baseball-hall-fame |title=Roger Angell at the Baseball Hall of Fame |magazine=The New Yorker |date=August 4, 2014 }}</ref> despite being a ''New Yorker'' writer, he was nominated by the San Francisco–Oakland chapter.<ref>{{cite news |first=Susan |last=Slusser |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giants/article/How-Bay-Area-baseball-scribes-helped-put-Roger-17203949.php |title=How Bay Area baseball scribes helped put Roger Angell in the Hall of Fame |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |date=May 27, 2022 }}</ref> In 2015 he was inducted into the [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://artsandletters.org/pressrelease/2015-new-members/ |title=2015 Newly Elected Members |publisher=American Academy of Arts and Letters |access-date=June 13, 2022 }}</ref> a unique combination with the [[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum|Baseball Hall of Fame]].<ref name=Remnick/> 

[[Ross Douthat]] named ''Late Innings'', ''The Summer Game'' and ''Five Seasons'' as influences: "I can’t point to any specific philosophy or perspective on contemporary America that I arrived at from reading, re-reading, and re-re-reading Angell’s luminous accounts of baseball seasons past. But if I were to make a list of writers who taught me how to write, he’d be near the top of it."<ref>{{cite news| author=[[Ross Douthat]]| title=The Influential Books Game| work=[[The New York Times]]| date=March 25, 2010| url=https://archive.nytimes.com/douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/the-influential-books-game/}}</ref> [[Michael Chabon]] names Angell and [[Jan Morris]] as "two of my favorite authors who are primarily writers of non-fiction."<ref>{{cite web|title = It Changed My Life |url= http://www.michaelchabon.com/archives/2005/03/it_changed_my_l.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20060720152012/http://www.michaelchabon.com/archives/2005/03/it_changed_my_l.html |url-status= dead |archive-date=20 July 2006 |last=Chabon |first=Michael |date=July 2006 |work=michaelchabon.com |access-date=12 February 2009}}</ref> 

Angell has four pieces excerpted in the [[Library of America]] volume ''Baseball: A Literary Anthology'', more than any other author. Editor [[Nicholas Dawidoff]] quotes a letter Angell's stepfather, [[E. B. White]], wrote to Angell: "It's new and exciting to have someone exploring baseball at the depth you have ventured into."  Dawidoff writes:  <blockquote>Angell's achievement was to turn quotidian baseball writing into belles lettres. In so doing he became the preeminent baseball writer of our era, a generous, appreciative, meticulous observer whose descriptions of the game are set forth with grace, brio, and wit. (Who else would refer to "the vast pastel conch of Dodger Stadium"?) Angell has Wagnerian range (Honus, that is); he is a master capable of vivid excursions into the profile (see Bob Gibson); he can make games he never saw breathtaking in their excitement (witness the 1986 National League playoffs); and he often reflects on matters philosophical ("The Interior Stadium" is the consummate baseball essay). He can write at length and, what is often more difficult, can write in brief.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dawidoff |first=Nicholas |title=Baseball: A Literary Anthology |publisher=[[Library of America]] |year=2002 |pages=413}}</ref></blockquote>