1. Jack Hitt has been a contributing editor to Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, This American Life, and the now-defunct magazine Lingua Franca.
20 Facts About Jack Hitt
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In 2006, an episode of This American Life that Jack Hitt contributed to called "Habeus Schmabeus" won a Peabody Award.
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Jack Hitt co-hosted the Gimlet Media Podcast Uncivil along with Chenjerai Kumanyiki between 2017 and 2018.
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John T L "Jack" Hitt was born in 1957 in Charleston, South Carolina to Ann Leonard Hitt and Robert Hitt Jr.
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Jack Hitt was raised in Charleston and attended the Porter-Gaud School.
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At Porter-Gaude, Jack Hitt got his start in writing by contributing to and editing the school's literary magazine.
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Jack Hitt attended the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee where he majored in comparative literature.
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Jack Hitt was president of the Spanish House and a member of the Spanish Honor Society.
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Jack Hitt would write about the experience of walking the road in his first book, Off The Road: A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim's route into Spain.
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Jack Hitt graduated from the University of the South in 1979.
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Jack Hitt lived in an apartment in New York City for about 8 years before he met and married his current wife Lisa Sanders in the late 1980s.
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Jack Hitt has been a contributing editor to Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, This American Life, and Lingua Franca.
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Since 1996, Jack Hitt has been a contributing editor to the radio series This American Life.
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Showrunner Ira Glass wrote an announcement for Jack Hitt's show that included a listing of what he considered to be stand out episodes of This American Life that Jack Hitt had contributed to.
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Between 2017 and 2018, Jack Hitt co-hosted the Gimlet Media podcast Uncivil along with Chenjerai Kumanyika.
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Jack Hitt was a regular US correspondent on Nine to Noon, hosted by Kathryn Ryan on Radio New Zealand National.
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In 2012, Jack Hitt was interviewed on The Colbert Report about his novel Bunch of Amateurs: A Search for the American Character.
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Between 2012 and 2013, Jack Hitt performed a one-man show he wrote about his childhood and the outlandish characters he's met in his life called Making Up The Truth.
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Jack Hitt wrote and performed Making Up the Truth, a one-man show that blends autobiographical storytelling with cognitive science to explore the nature of truth and memory.
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Jack Hitt performed the show at various venues, including the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, Joe's Pub, and the Long Wharf Theatre, receiving praise for his engaging, humorous, and thought-provoking storytelling.