Roger Anderson

1 week ago | sandiegoreader.com | Robert Houghton |Richard Meltzer |Andrew Hamlin |Roger Anderson

Roger Anderson was not the only Reader writer to write about El Cajon classmate Lester Bangs. Bruce Springsteen and Bangs, 1975. Roger Anderson, who wrote Wednesday's story on Lester Bangs at Altamont and Friday's on Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona,  grew up in El Cajon, was part of early San Diego rock scene, wrote for alternative weeklies, and served as art director for the Washington Post. He died in January, 2003 in Baltimore, Maryland at the age of 53.