Nathan Irving (Nat) Hentoff (10 Hairan 1925 –7 Ocak 2017), Amerikalı romancı, tarihçi, müzik eleştirmeni ve köşe yazarıdır.
10 Haziran 1925'ye doğan Nat Hentoff, 1958 ile 2009 jazz müziği tarihini anlatanThe Village Voice adlı kitabıyla bilinir.
Hentoff çeşitli basın yayın organlarıDown Beat, JazzTimes, Legal Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Progressive, Editor & PublisherveFree Inquiry gibi yerlerde müzik ve tarih konusunda yazılar kalem almıştır.
Nat Hentoff, 7 Ocak 2017'de 91 yaşında öldü.
Kitapları
Kurgusal
Hear Me Talkin' To Ya, metNat Shapiro (1955)
The Jazz Makers, met Nat Shapiro (1957)
The Jazz Life (1961)
Peace Agitator: The Story of Abraham Johannes Muste (1963)
The New Equality (1964)
Our Children Are Dying (çeviri: John Holt) (1967)
A Doctor Among the Addicts (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)
Insisting on Life (çeviri: Wesley Smith ve Maria McFadden) (2005)
Romanları
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)
Hikâye
Boston Boy: Growing Up With Jazz and Other Rebellious Passions (1986)
Speaking Freely: A Memoir (1997)
Toplama
The Nat Hentoff Reader (2001)
Tarihi
Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz by the Men Who Made It (çeviri: Nat Shapiro) (1955)
Jazz: New Perspectives on the History of Jazz (çeviri:Albert McCarthy) (1959)