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  <name><![CDATA[Ben Yagoda]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Ben Yagoda (born 22 February 1954 in New York City) is a professor of journalism at the University of Delaware.

Born to Louis Yagoda and the former Harriet Lewis, he grew up in New Rochelle, New York and entered Yale University to study English in 1971. He became a freelance journalist for publications such as The New Leader, The New York Times, Newsweek, and Rolling Stone, and published a number of books including About Town: The New Yorker and the World it Made. Yagoda currently lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania with his wife and two daughters.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>New York City</hometown>  <born_at>02/22/1954</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better And/Or Worse]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The ART OF FACT: A HISTORICAL ANTHOLOGY OF LITERARY JOURNALISM]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Sound on the Page: Great Writers Talk about Style and Voice in Writing]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Writer's Digest Handbook Of Magazine Article Writing]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Will Rogers: A Biography]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Memoir: A History]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[All in a Lifetime: An Autobiography]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Value of Family: A Blueprint for the 21st Century]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Sound on the Page]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College: The First 75 Years]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Memoir]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Value of Family: A Blueprint for the 21st Century]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Writers Notes Magazine: Issue #2]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Thomas E. Kennedy]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Value of Family: A Blueprint for the 21st Century (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series)]]></title>
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