# Nat Hentoff **URL:** --- Nat Hentoff is an American historian, novelist, jazz and country music critic, and syndicated columnist for United Media, who writes regularly on jazz and country music for \*The Wall Street Journal\*. Hentoff has formerly worked as a columnist for \*Down Beat\*, \*The Village Voice\*, \*JazzTimes\*, \*Legal Times\*, \*The Washington Post\*, \*The Washington Times\*, \*The Progressive\*, \*Editor \& Publisher\*, and \*Free Inquiry\*. He has been a staff writer for \*The New Yorker\*, and his writing has also been published in \*The New York Times\*, \*Jewish World Review\*, \*The Atlantic\*, \*The New Republic\*, \*Commonweal\* and in the Italian \*Enciclopedia dello Spettacolo\*.