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Thomas Sancton (January 11, 1915 – April 6, 2012) was an American novelist and journalist.[1][2]

Biography

Sancton was born in the

civil rights and the South while serving as the managing editor of The New Republic[4] and, later, as Washington editor of The Nation. In the 1950s he was a reporter and feature writer for The New Orleans Item-Tribune, and taught feature writing at Tulane. He also reported for Life magazine, and for the Associated Press
. In the 1960s he represented clients of Walker Saussy Inc., a New Orleans-based public relations firm, before launching his own public relations business. In 2013, his extensive papers and correspondence were donated to the Historic New Orleans Collection.

Sancton's son is Thomas Sancton Jr., a noted jazz clarinetist, author, and former Paris bureau chief for Time magazine.[5] He had two daughters, Bethany Villere and Wendy Aucoin. Sancton's wife, Seta Alexander Sancton (1915–2007), was the author of "The World From Gillespie Place," a popular memoir of growing up in Jackson, Mississippi.

Writings

Books

  • By Starlight
  • Count Roller Skates

The Nation

  • "The Case of Alger Hiss" (September 4, 1948)
  • "Hiss and Chambers: a Tangled Web" (December 18, 1948)

References

  1. ^ "Thomas Sancton, pioneering journalist, dies at age 97". nola.com.
  2. ISBN 978-0-8071-2743-8
    . Retrieved May 20, 2011.
  3. ^ The Crisis. The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc. August 1972. p. 222. Retrieved May 20, 2011.
  4. ^ Jackson, Lawrence (Fall 2007). "Bucklin Moon and Thomas Sancton in the 1940s: Crusaders for the Racial Left" (PDF). Southern Literary Journal. XL (1). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 27, 2011.
  5. ^ "From The Publisher". Time. January 4, 1993. Archived from the original on October 28, 2010. Retrieved May 20, 2011.
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