Universal Uclick Network:   GoComics -  Uexpress -  The Puzzles Society

jump to

Columns ---- Lifestyle ---- Dear Abby Figuratively Speaking Focus on the Family Last Word in Astrology News of the Weird Pet Connection Scott Burns 7-Day Menu Planner Smart Moves Supermarket Sampler Tell Me A Story ---- Opinions ---- Ann Coulter As I See It Maggie Gallagher Georgie Anne Geyer National Perspective Ted Rall Richard Reeves Donna Brazile Sweet Land of Liberty Gene Lyons Byron York The New Republic

FONT SIZE

Back to Sweet Land of Liberty

Share: Hentoff is on the steering committee of the Reporters' Committee for the Freedom of the Press. A columnist and staff writer with The Village Voice from 1957 through 2008, Hentoff now writes for Free Inquiry and the Washington Times, in addition to his NEA column. In 1995, Hentoff received the National Press Foundation Award for Distinguished Contributions to Journalism. In 1999, he was a Pulitzer finalist for commentary. He has also been honored with the American Library Association's Imroth Award for Intellectual Freedom and an American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award. A jazz expert, Hentoff writes on music for The Wall Street Journal and Jazz Times. His numerous books include Does Anybody Give a Damn? Nat Hentoff on Education (1977); The First Freedom: The Tumultuous History of Free Speech in America (1980); and Living the Bill of Rights (1998). His most recent books include The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering Resistance (2004) and Jazz Is (2004). He is the author of two more books that will be released in 2009: a sequel to The War on the Bill of Rights called Is this America? and At the Jazz Band Ball: 60 Years on the Jazz Scene (University of California Press). From 1952-1957, Hentoff was the New York editor of Down Beat magazine. A native of Boston, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and was a Fulbright Fellow at the Sorbonne in Paris. He did graduate work at Harvard University, received his B.A. from Northeastern University and was awarded an honorary doctorate of law from Northeastern in 1985. He has taught courses in journalism and on the Constitution at Princeton University and New York University.