Let Me Finish

Widely known as an original and graceful writer Roger Angell has developed a devoted following through his essays in the New Yorker. Now in Let Me Finish a deeply personal fresh form of autobiography he takes an unsentimental look at his early days as a boy growing up in Prohibition-era New York with a remarkable father; a mother Katharine White who was a founding editor of the New Yorker; and a famous stepfather the writer E. B. White. <p/>Intimate funny and moving portraits form the book's centerpiece as Angell remembers his surprising relatives his early attraction to baseball in the time of Ruth and Gehrig and DiMaggio and his vivid colleagues during a long career as a New Yorker writer and editor. Infused with pleasure and sadness Angell's disarming memoir also evokes an attachment to life's better moments.