Nat Hentoff is one of America's most prolific journalists. A music critic, civil libertarian, and free speech advocate, he has written more than twenty books of non-fiction and six novels. His scope includes jazz, politics, biography, education, freedom of expression, capital punishment, and the US Bill of Rights. He wrote a biography of John Cardinal O'Connor, the controversial archbishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York. Hentoff's columns have appeared in such magazines as the Village Voice, Down Beat, Jazz Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Jewish World Review.