11 Facts About Roger Rosenblatt

Roger Rosenblatt was a long-time essayist for Time magazine and PBS NewsHour.

Roger Rosenblatt began writing professionally in his mid-30s, when he became literary editor and a columnist for The New Republic.

Roger Rosenblatt continued to do TV essays for the NewsHour until that same year.

Roger Rosenblatt's Time cover essay, "A Letter to the Year 2086" was chosen for the time capsule placed inside the Statue of Liberty at its centennial.

Roger Rosenblatt argued in a 1999 article for Time that guns should be banned.

Under managing editor Ray Cave, Roger Rosenblatt wrote the magazine's first "tone poems," brief interpretive essays introducing cover stories.

In 2006 Roger Rosenblatt left his positions at Time and the NewsHour and gave up journalism to devote his time to the writing of memoirs, novels and extended essays.

Roger Rosenblatt's first novel, Lapham Rising, was a national bestseller, adapted as Angry Neighbors and filmed around Waseca, Minnesota and Excelsior, Minnesota.

Roger Rosenblatt has written six off-Broadway plays, including Ashley Montana Goes Ashore in the Caicos, and The Oldsmobiles, both produced at the Flea Theater.

In November, 2015, Roger Rosenblatt received the 2015 Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement.

Roger Rosenblatt's papers are kept in the Chalmers Library at Kenyon College.