Hentoff, Nathan Irving

Nat Hentoff is a prolific writer on such issues as jazz, civil liberties, free speech and education. He had studied at Northeastern University and Harvard, and was a Fulbright fellow at the Sorbonne. After writing for many major media outlets, including «Commonweal» as a long time regular columnist for the «New York Times», he continues to write on music for the «Wall Street Journal» and has a weekly column in the «Village Voice». Merton thanks him for editing a book on the essays of A. J. Muste, and they discuss an essay by Hentoff on Lenny Bruce in a book called «Seeds of Liberation». (Source: "Nat Hentoff". «The Washington Post» online edition: 1998. ‹http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/opinions/hentoff.htm›, accessed 2005/03/29.)