| Nat Hentoff  AKA Nathan Irving Hentoff
Born: 10-Jun-1925
Birthplace: Boston, MA
Died: 7-Jan-2017
Location of death: Manhattan, NY
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Critic Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Jazz Life Father: Simon Hentoff
Mother: Lena Katzenberg
Wife: Miriam Sargent (m. 1950, div.)
Wife: Trudi Bernstein (m. 1954, div.)
Wife: Margot Goodman (m. 1959, until his death)
Daughter: Jessica
Daughter: Miranda
Son: Nicholas
Son: Thomas
High School: Boston Latin School
University: BA, Northeastern University (1945)
University: Harvard University
Bill of Rights Defense Committee Advisory Board
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Steering Committee
NEA Jazz Master 2004
Assisted by the ACLU (Jan-1972)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Lake of Fire (9-Sep-2006) · Himself
Sweet and Lowdown (4-Sep-1999) · Himself
Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth (21-Oct-1998) · Himself
A Great Day in Harlem (27-Sep-1994) · Himself
Author of books:
The Jazz Life (1975)
Does Anybody Give a Damn? Nat Hentoff on Education (1977)
Does This School Have Capital Punishment? (1981)
The Day They Came to Arrest the Book (1982)
The Man from Internal Affairs (1985)
Free Speech for Me -- But Not for Thee: How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other (1993)
Listen to the Stories: Nat Hentoff on Jazz and Country Music (1995)
Speaking Freely (1997, memoir)
Living the Bill of Rights: How to Be an Authentic American (1998)
Boston Boy: Growing up with Jazz and Other Rebellious Passions (2001)
The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering Resistance (2003)
American Music Is (2004)
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