in St. Louis, Missouri.) He divorced his second wife in August 1959. On August 15, 1959, he married his third wife, Margot Goodman, with whom he had two children: Nicholas and Thomas. The couple remained together until he died of natural causes at his Manhattan apartment on January 7, 2017, aged 91. Books Non-fiction Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz as Told by the Men who Made it, with Nat Shapiro. (1955) The Jazz Makers, with Nat Shapiro. (1957) The Jazz Life. (1961) Peace Agitator: The Story of A. J. Muste. (1963) The New Equality. (1964) Our Children Are Dying (with John Holt). (1967) A Doctor Among the Addicts: The Story of Marie Nyswander. (1968) A Political Life: The Education of John V. Lindsay (1969) Journey into Jazz. (1971) Jazz Is. (1976) Does Anybody Give a Damn?: Nat Hentoff on Education. (Random House; 1977) The First Freedom: The Tumultuous History of Free Speech in America. (1980) American Heroes: In and Out of School. (1987) John Cardinal O'Connor: At the Storm Center of a Changing American Catholic Church. (1988) Free Speech for Me—But Not for Thee: How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other. (1993) Listen to the Stories: Nat Hentoff on Jazz and Country Music. (1995) Living the Bill of Rights: How to Be an Authentic American. (1999) The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering Resistance. (2004) American Music Is. (2004) Novels Jazz Country. (1965) Call the Keeper. (1966) Onwards! (1968) I'm Really Dragged But Nothing Gets Me Down (1968) This School is Driving Me Crazy. (1976) Does This School Have Capital Punishment? (1982) Blues for Charlie Darwin. (1982) The Day They Came To Arrest The Book. (1983) The Man from Internal Affairs. (1985) Memoirs Boston Boy: Growing Up With Jazz and Other Rebellious Passions. (1986) Speaking Freely: A Memoir. (1997) Compilations The Nat Hentoff Reader. (2001) Edited volumes Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz by the Men Who Made It (with Nat Shapiro). (1955) Black Anti-Semitism and Jewish Racism. (1969) Jazz: New Perspectives on the History of Jazz by Twelve of the World's Foremost Jazz Critics and Scholars. (with Albert McCarthy) (1975) References Bibliography External links 1925 births 2017 deaths American anti–death penalty activists Jewish American atheists American columnists American essayists American libertarians American male novelists American music historians American male non-fiction writers American music journalists American political