Katharine Angell joined the New Yorker within months of it starting, her future husband E.B. White shortly thereafter, her son Roger started writing for it in 1944 and contributed into his 90s. So until Friday, when Roger died, it was a two generation magazine.
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You can't live to be 101 and not know much grief. Angell, as he said, not only outlived his generation but the generation below him. He outlived two of his daughters. His great essay "This Old Man" is about the courage it takes to merely continue living.https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/534347/this-old-man-by-roger-angell/9781101971390 …
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