Ben Yagoda

<p>Ben Yagoda is the author of <em>About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made</em>, a <em>New York Times</em> Notable Book of the Year, and <em>Will Rogers</em>. He is coeditor, with Kevin Kerrane, of <em>The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism</em>, and has written for The <em>New York Times Magazine</em>, <em>The American Scholar</em>, <em>Esquire</em>, and many other publications. Yagoda directs the journalism department at the University of Delaware, where he teaches nonfiction writing. He lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, with his wife and two daughters.</p>