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 Yagoda speaking at the Third Coast Audio Festival, 21 October 2005 | |
| Born | February 22, 1954 New York City, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Yale University; University of Pennsylvania |
| Notable credit(s) | The New Leader , The New York Times , Newsweek , Rolling Stone |
Ben Yagoda (born February 22, 1954) is an American writer and educator. He is a professor of journalism and English at the University of Delaware.
Born in New York City to Louis Yagoda (1909–1990), a labor mediator and arbitrator with the New York State Mediation Board, visiting lecturer at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and a former organizer for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, and Harriet (née Lewis), [1] [2] he grew up in New Rochelle, New York. He entered Yale University to study English in 1971 and graduated in 1976 with a bachelor of arts. He later earned an M.A. in American civilization at the University of Pennsylvania, in 1991. [3]
He became a freelance journalist for publications such as The New Leader , The New York Times , Newsweek , and Rolling Stone . He has published a number of books including About Town: The New Yorker and the World it Made.
Besides his work as a journalism and English professor at the University of Delaware, Yagoda also writes occasionally for a New York Times blog about the English language. [4]
He currently has a monthly podcast called The Lives They're Living with Ben Yagoda.
Yagoda resides in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, with his wife. They have two daughters.
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