11 Facts About Roger Kahn

Roger Kahn was an American journalist and author, best known for his 1972 baseball book The Boys of Summer.

Roger Kahn was born in Brooklyn, New York, on October 31,1927, to Olga and Gordon Jacques Kahn, a teacher and editor.

Roger Kahn attended Froebel Academy, a prep school, then Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn.

Roger Kahn was a lecturer at Yale University, Princeton University, and Columbia University.

Roger Kahn became sports editor for Newsweek in 1956, and editor-at-large of the Saturday Evening Post in 1963.

Roger Kahn wrote a biography of the heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey, entitled A Flame of Pure Fire.

Roger Kahn cited as his journalistic influences, Stanley Woodward, John Lardner, and Red Smith.

Roger Kahn married Joan Rappaport in 1950; they divorced in 1963.

Roger Kahn married his second wife, Alice Lippincott Russell, in 1963; they divorced in 1974.

Roger Kahn lived in the Hudson Valley community of Stone Ridge, New York, with his third wife, Katharine Colt Johnson, a psychotherapist, whom he married in 1989.

Roger Kahn died in Sarah Newman nursing home in Mamaroneck, New York, in February 2020, at the age of 92.