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Ben Yagoda

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Ben Yagoda (B.A. Yale, M.A. University of Pennsylvania) is the author of About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made (Scribner, 2000) and Will Rogers: A Biography (Alfred A. Knopf, 1993) and the coeditor of The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism (Scribner, 1997). He has contributed articles, essays and reviews to more than fifty national publications, including Esquire, the New York Times Magazine, and the New York Times Book Review. He teaches courses in journalism and nonfiction writing.
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