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Since 2007, Hitt has been one of two regular US correspondents on ''Nine to Noon'', hosted by [[Kathryn Ryan]] on [[Radio New Zealand National]]. |
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==Allan Stern murder conspiracy== |
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Starting in 1981, Hitt rented an apartment in New York City from landlord [[Allan Stern]]. In 1988, Stern was convicted in the [[contract killing]] of his brother-in-law.<ref>http://www.allanstern.net/Home_Page.html</ref> Several years after Stern's trial, Hitt happened to call John Moscow, the [[district attorney]] who had convicted Stern. Moscow informed Hitt that Stern had been arrested while planning to have Hitt murdered, for Hitt's activism on behalf of his fellow tenants. Hitt later discussed the incident on [[The Moth]] podcast.<ref>Jack Hitt: Slumlord. [[The Moth]]. Feburay 24, 2009. [http://s3.amazonaws.com/themoth.prx.org/wp-content/uploads/moth-podcast-jack-hitt.mp3 Mp3]</ref> |
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== Books == |
== Books == |
Revision as of 22:50, 28 January 2011
Jack Hitt is an American author. He is a contributing editor to The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, and This American Life. He served previously as a contributing editor to the now-defunct magazine Lingua Franca. He also frequently appears in places like Rolling Stone, Wired, and Outside Magazine. In 1990, he received the Livingston Award for national coverage. More recently, a piece on the anthropology of white Indians was selected for "Best American Science Writing," and another piece about dying languages appeared in "Best American Travel Writing." Another piece on the existential life of a superfund site was included in 2007 in Ira Glass’s “The New Kings of Nonfiction."
Biography
Hitt was born and raised in Charleston, South Carolina, where he attended the Porter-Gaud School. He got his start in journalism as editor of the "Paper Clip," the literary magazine of Porter-Gaud's first through fifth grades. According to his biography, he published "some of the finest haiku penned by well-off pre-teens in all of South Carolina's lowcountry".
Since 1996, Hitt has also been a contributing editor to This American Life. He contributed a story about a production of Peter Pan in an episode entitled “Fiasco”. Other pieces include his life growing up with one of the earliest transgendered women (“Dawn”), an hour long program on a group of prisoners in a maximum security prison putting on a production of Hamlet (“Act V”, #218), another episode about his life in a New York apartment building in which his superintendent turned out to be the head of a death squad in Brazil (“The Super”, #323) and more recently a segment on the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay called “Habeas Schmabeas” (#331) This last program earned him the Peabody Award in 2007.
Since 2007, Hitt has been one of two regular US correspondents on Nine to Noon, hosted by Kathryn Ryan on Radio New Zealand National.
Books
- Off the Road: A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim’s Route into Spain (1994)
- In a Word: A Dictionary of Words That Don't Exist, But Ought To (1992) ISBN 0-440-50358-2
- The Harper’s Forum Book (editor, 1991)
- Perfect Murder: Five Great Mystery Writers Create the Perfect Crime (editor, 1991)