Few authors have achieved as many levels of success as has Roger Kahn. When his New York Herald Tribune salary reached $10,000 a year in 1955, he was the highest-paid and most-sought-after baseball writer in the city. Turning to freelance magazine writing, he won five Best Sports Stories prizes between 1960 and 1982. A "serious" book, The Passionate People: What It Means to Be a Jew in America (1968), was published as Kahn turned forty. Kahn has published eleven books--two of them novels--since then, including the landmark The Boys of Summer (1972), which contrasted the young, diverse, talented Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s with their middle-aged selves facing personal agonies twenty years later; A Season in the Sun (1977); Good Enough to Dream (1985); and The Era: 1947-1957, When the Yankees, the Giants, and the Dodgers Ruled the World (1993). Though he has also written about the 1968 Columbia University student protests, the poet Robert Frost, the violinist Jascha Heifetz, and sports other than baseball, Kahn is best known for his works on the national pastime and its role in American life.
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