Jack Hitt

Jack Hitt is an American author. He has been a contributing editor to ''Harper's'', ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''This American Life'', and the now-defunct magazine ''Lingua Franca''. His work has appeared in such publications as ''Outside Magazine'', ''Rolling Stone'', ''Wired'', ''Mother Jones'', ''Slate'', and ''Garden & Gun''.

In 1990, he received the Livingston Award, along with Paul Tough, for an article they wrote about computer hackers that was published in ''Esquire''. Jack has written and edited multiple books, and has had articles selected for inclusion in ''Best American Science Writing 2006,'' ''Best American Travel Writing 2005'', and in Ira Glass's ''The New Kings of Nonfiction'' (2007). In 2006, an episode of ''This American Life'' that Jack contributed to called "Habeus Schmabeus" won a Peabody Award. Hitt also co-hosted the Gimlet Media Podcast ''Uncivil'' along with Chenjerai Kumanyiki between 2017 and 2018. ''Uncivil'' won a Peabody award in 2017 for the episode titled "The Raid". Provided by Wikipedia