Roger Angell (1920- ) a senior editor and a staff writer, has contributed to The New Yorker since 1944, and became a fiction editor in 1956. Since 1962, he has written more than a hundred Sporting Scene pieces, mostly on baseball but also on tennis, hockey, football, rowing, and horse racing. In addition, he has written film reviews, stories, casuals, Notes and Comment pieces, and, for many years, the magazine’s Christmas verse, “Greetings, Friends!”. In 2014, Angell received the BBWAA Excellence Award, the highest honor given to writers by the Baseball Hall of Fame. In 2015, he won the National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism for his piece “This Old Man” and was inducted into the American Institute of Art and Letters.

Katharine S. White, (1892-1977) Roger’s mother, began working at The New Yorker in 1925, the year of its founding, and was an editor there for thirty-four years, shaping the careers of such writers as John O'Hara, Vladimir Nabokov, and Jean Stafford. In 1958, when her job as editor was coming to a close, White wrote the first of a series of fourteen garden pieces that appeared in The New Yorker over the next twelve years.

Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, (1881-1965) Roger’s maternal aunt, was an American journalist and writer. Sergeant's work includes non-fiction works (French Perspectives, 1916, and her best known work "Shadow-Shapes: Journal of a Wounded Woman," 1920) as well as one novel ("Short as Any Dream," 1929). She was also a biographer and author of a study about Willa Cather, as well as some 83 articles published in various periodicals. After 1920, she was living in Taos, New Mexico. She wrote about the Pueblo Indians and New Mexico itself until mid-1930. She spent some time in New York and studied under the analyst C.G. Jung. She spent some time writing at the MacDowell Colony. She also wrote Robert Frost: The Trial by Existence (1960).