Jack Hitt
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Jack Hitt is an American author. He is a contributing editor to Harper's, GQ, Lingua Franca, and This American Life. He also frequently appears in places like the New York Times Magazine and Outside Magazine. In 1990, he received the Livingston Award for national coverage. He currently lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
Hitt was born and raised in Charleston, South Carolina. He got his start in journalism as editor of the Paperclip, the magazine of Porter-Gaud School's first through sixth grade, where, according to his biography, he published "some of the finest haiku penned by well-off pre-teens in all of South Carolina's lowcountry".
In late 2004 and early 2005, Hitt became more interested in liberal politics, doing several radio shows on the subject for This American Life, writing posts for Tom Tomorrow's popular liberal weblog, and writing op-eds for the LA Times. [1] (http://www.thismodernworld.com/weblog/mtarchives/week_2005_05_15.html#002168)[2] (http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-hitt26apr26,0,1240928.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions)
Books
- Off the Road: A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim’s Route into Spain (1994)
- In a Word: Dictionary (1992)
- The Harper’s Forum Book (editor, 1991)
- Perfect Murder: Five Great Mystery Writers Create the Perfect Crime (editor, 1991)
Radio
Jack Hitt's work can be heard on the following episodes of This American Life:
- 15
- 38
- 56
- 61
- 65
- 68
- 85
- 100
- 110
- 115
- 120
- 123
- 145
- 171
- 216
- 218
- 229
- 250
External links
- This American Life staff (http://www.thislife.org/pages/staff.html)