![]() ![]() (He also, as we learn here, rejected around twenty thousand manuscripts.) Second, for many years he wrote the annual “Greetings, Friends!” Christmas poem, a conglomeration of couplets cleverly built around the names of people who were newsworthy in the year just ending. ![]() Pritchett, Donald Barthelme, and Ann Beattie. As a result, when Angell recalls his childhood and youth, he remembers New Yorker galleys piled around the house, the sound of typing from White’s study, and parties where you might chat with James Thurber.Īngell is probably best known for three reasons: First, as a longtime New Yorker fiction editor, he shepherded hundreds of stories into the magazine by authors as various as V. He literally grew up with the magazine, his mother, Katharine White, being its first fiction editor and his stepfather, E. Roger Angell is now ninety-five and pretty much the last staffer at the New Yorker to have been part of its golden age. ![]()
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