William Honan
| William Honan | |
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| Born |
William Holmes Honan May 11, 1930 Manhattan, New York City, New York |
| Died | April 28, 2014 (aged 83) Norwalk, Connecticut |
| Occupation | Journalist, author |
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| Children | 3 |
William Holmes Honan (May 11, 1930 – April 28, 2014) was an American journalist and author who directed coverage of the arts at The New York Times as its culture editor in the 1980s. Honan also held senior editorial positions at the New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Saturday Review and The Villager, a weekly newspaper serving downtown Manhattan.
As a reporter, Honan set (and continues to hold) the record for the most stories published in the New York Times Magazine (over 30).
Honan also helped solve one of the biggest and longest unsolved art thefts of the 20th century: the disappearance of over $200 million worth of medieval treasures from Quedlinburg, Germany at the end of World War II. Honan was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his investigative reporting on this story. The quest to find the "Quedlinburg Hoard" later became the subject of one of Honan's numerous critically acclaimed books.
Honan was born in Manhattan on May 11, 1930, the son of William Francis Honan, a thoracic surgeon and Annette Neudecker Honan, a journalist. He is a brother of Park Honan, an academic and author.
He graduated from Oberlin College in 1952 with a bachelor's degree in history. In 1955 he earned a master's degree in drama from the University of Virginia. After serving in the Army, Honan moved to New York City where he managed Ed Koch's early political campaigns and began a notable career in journalism.
Honan worked at The Villager, a downtown New York City paper, from 1957 to 1960, and is credited with turning the publication from "a little society paper" to a significant force in Manhattan politics. Serving as editor, Honan established himself as a crusading voice for reform against the Tammany Hall political machine and the automobile-centric visions of the autocratic urban planner Robert Moses.
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