MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Hentoff, Nathan Irving, 1925-
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1966-1967
Volume: 4 item(s); 4 pg(s)
Scope and Content
This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Hentoff, Nathan Irving".
Biography
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.)
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See also the "Keefe, Fred" file.
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