WILL ROGERS: A BIOGRAPHY

In 1922 and 1927, groundbreaking comedian Will Rogers took The Town Hall stage to lend his voice to political campaigns. Widely considered one of the most influential entertainers and humorists in American history, Rogers was a social critic, rancher, cowboy and Guiness World Record lasso roper. Professor and author of Will Rogers: A Biography  Ben Yagoda will join The Town Hall for a discussion of one of the United State’s most important humorists: the vaudevillian, film actor and writer Will Rogers.

Besides Will Rogers: A Biography, Ben Yagoda’s books include About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made; Memoir: A History; and The B Side: The death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song. He is currently a Guggenheim Fellow, working on a book about O. Henry’s years in New York. Yagoda lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.