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Ben Yagoda, who grew up in New Rochelle, turns 60 on Saturday.
Yagoda, a writer and educator, was born Feb. 22, 1954.
He is a professor of journalism and English at the University of Delaware. He has been a freelance journalist for publications such as The New Leader, The New York Times, Newsweek, and Rolling Stone. He has published a number of books including About Town: The New Yorker and the World it Made.
Besides his work as a journalism and English professor at the University of Delaware, Yagoda also writes occasionally for a New York Times blog about the English language.
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