Фредерик Сэмюэлл Хиатт: Американ журналисінің өмірі мен қызметі

American journalist (1955–2021)

Frederick Samuel Hiatt (April 30, 1955 – December 6, 2021) was an American journalist. He was the editorial page editor of The Washington Post, where he oversaw the newspaper's opinion pages and wrote editorials and a biweekly column. He was part of the Post team that won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service.

Hiatt was born in Washington, D. C., and Doris Bieringer, a librarian who co founded a reference publication for high school libraries. Both of his parents came from Jewish families. Hiatt grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts, after his father was named dean of the Harvard School of Public Health. Many relatives of his paternal grandfather were killed during the Holocaust. His maternal grandfather, Walter H. Bieringer, served as president of the United Service for New Americans which helped to resettle European Jews in the United States after World War II, and served as vice president of the Associated Jewish Philanthropies of Boston and as a member of a presidential committee which advised the Truman Administration on displaced persons before being named Head of Massachusetts Commission on Refugees in 1957. the couple lived in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and had three children.

Hiatt had a history of heart disease.

Hiatt wrote The Secret Sun: A Novel of Japan, which was published in 1992, as well as two books for children, If I Were Queen of the World (1997) and Baby Talk (1999). In April 2013, his first novel for young adult audiences, Nine Days, was published. It follows two fictional teenagers on a journey to free an imprisoned Chinese dissident; while the protagonists are fictional, the prisoner and his story are based in reality.