William Holmes Honan was an American journalist and author who directed coverage of the arts at The New York Times as its culture editor in the 1980s.
10 Facts About William Honan
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William Honan helped solve the theft of medieval art from Quedlinburg: the disappearance of over $200 million worth of medieval treasures from Quedlinburg, Germany at the end of World War II.
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William Honan is a brother of Park Honan, an academic and author.
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William Honan graduated from Oberlin College in 1952 with a bachelor's degree in history.
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William Honan worked at The Villager, a downtown New York City paper, from 1957 to 1960, and is credited with turning the publication from "a little society paper" to a significant force in Manhattan politics.
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William Honan convinced the Villager's assistant publisher, Jim Bledsoe, to endorse political candidates in 1959.
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William Honan joined the Times in 1969 as an editor at the Times Magazine.
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William Honan went on to become editor of the Travel section in 1970 and editor of the Arts and Leisure section in 1974.
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Visions of Infamy is a biography of Hector Charles Bywater, the leading naval journalist of the first part of the 20th century who William Honan argues was the architect of Japan's naval war against the United States in the Second World War.
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William Honan published Treasure Hunt: A New York Times Reporter Tracks the Quedlinburg Hoard in 1997.