Joshua Prager (writer)

Joshua Harris Prager (born 1971) is a reporter for the "Wall Street Journal" and author of the book "The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World", about the Shot Heard 'Round the World, a famous 1951 baseball playoff game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants.

Prager often writes of secrets. He revealed the unknown heir of Margaret Wise Brown, author of the classic children's book "Goodnight Moon". [cite news | title=Runaway Money | author = Joshua Prager | publisher = Wall Street Journal | page=A1 | date=September 8, 2000 | url=http://joshuaprager.com/wsj/articles/goodnightmoon/] He confirmed the decades-long rumor that the New York Giants had stolen signs en route to the 1951 pennant. [cite news | title=Inside Baseball: Giants' 1951 Comeback, The Sport's Greatest, Wasn't All It Seemed --- Miracle Ended With 'The Shot Heard Round the World' |author = Joshua Prager | publisher = Wall Street Journal | page=A1 | date=January 31, 2001 | url=http://joshuaprager.com/wsj/articles/baseball/] . And he tracked down the Iranian photographer Jahangir Razmi, the only anonymous winner in the history of the Pulitzer Prizes [cite news | title=A Chilling Photograph's Hidden History | author = Joshua Prager | publisher = Wall Street Journal | page=A1 | date=December 2, 2006 | url=http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116499510215538266-w6oLtTyb6LO2glORvqxTV1PwiTM_20061211.html?mod=blogs] .

Personal background

Born in Eagle Butte, South Dakota, Prager attended the Moriah School in Englewood, New Jersey and attended high school at the Ramaz School in Manhattan. [Cohen, Irwin. [http://www.jewishpress.com/displayContent_new.cfm?contentid=20624&mode=a&sectionid=15&contentname=Baseball_Is_Dull_Only_To_Those_With_Dull_Minds&recnum=9&subid=20729 "Baseball Is Dull Only To Those With Dull Minds"] , "The Jewish Press", February 7, 2007. "The best book you can get about Thomson’s homer, the 1951 season, the players, sign-stealing and more is Joshua Prager’s The Echoing Green. Prager, who grew up in New Jersey, went to Moriah Day School, Ramaz High School and spent a year in yeshiva after high school before going on to college and a writing career with The Wall Street Journal."]

Prager is the son of Columbia University physician and medical ethics expert Kenneth Prager and the nephew of commentator Dennis Prager. [http://www.lukeford.net/Dennis/p31398.html]

References

External links

* [http://www.joshuaprager.com/ Official website]
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/pantheon/catalog/results2.pperl?authorid=24439 Random House bio]