Nat Hentoff, a well-known American historian, novelist, music critic and syndicated columnist, died Saturday, his son wrote on Twitter.
Hentoff’s life was celebrated by many journalists on social media who read his weekly political columns in the Village Voice, an alternative outspoken liberal weekly, or followed his writings on jazz, a subject he covered for roughly six decades. He came to be known as an expert on the Bill of Rights, the Supreme Court, student rights and education and also professed the “rights of Americans to write, think and speak freely” in his weekly Village Voice columns.
Hentoff, 91, wrote on the topics of country and jazz for the Wall Street Journal and was also a syndicated columnist for United Media.
His work also appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, the New Republic and the New Yorker, where he was a staff writer for 25 years.
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