Nat Hentoff appears in a scene from the 2014 movie “The Pleasures of Being Out of Step: Notes on the Life of Nat Hentoff.”(First Run Features)
Nat Hentoff, a renowned journalist and advocate for freedom of speech, died in his Manhattan apartment on Saturday. He was 91 years old.
His son Nick revealed Nat’s passing on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/Nick_Hentoff/status/817903366382776320
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Hentoff’s official job was covering jazz. He worked for New York’s liberal Village Voice for decades. He published more than 30 books including works of fiction and non-fiction. The writer grew up in Boston and graduated from Northeastern University. While he was raised Jewish, Hentoff rebelled against religion at an early age and was himself an atheist.
https://twitter.com/Nick_Hentoff/status/818106697256464384
Nat Hentoff’s colleagues also took to Twitter to express their regrets.
https://twitter.com/jaynordlinger/status/817927554799648768
https://twitter.com/jackshafer/status/817910175961071616
https://twitter.com/mbaram/status/817934691084988418
