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Ben Yagoda

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Bio

Ben Yagoda is a journalism professor at the University of Delaware. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of twelve books, including About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made; How to Not Write Bad; Memoir: A History; and Will Rogers: A Biography. He contributes to The Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Lingua Franca” blog and has written for Slate, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, and The American Scholar, among other publications. Yagoda lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, with his wife.

Ben Yagoda Books

O. Henry: 101 Stories (LOA #345) book cover

O. Henry: 101 Stories (LOA #345)

O. Henry
The B Side book cover

The B Side

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How to Not Write Bad book cover

How to Not Write Bad

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Memoir book cover

Memoir

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The Sound on the Page book cover

The Sound on the Page

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When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It book cover

When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It

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