Tom Sancton
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Thomas Alexander Sancton (a.k.a. Tom, Tommy) is an American writer, jazz clarinetist and educator. From 1992 to 2001 he was Paris bureau chief for TIME Magazine, where he worked for 22 years,[1] and he has contributed to numerous publications including Vanity Fair, Fortune, Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal.[2] His acclaimed memoir, Song for My Fathers: a New Orleans Story in Black and White (2006), recounts his early life among traditional jazzmen in his native New Orleans. He taught journalism at the American University of Paris from 2002 to 2004. In 2007 he was named Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Tulane University,[3] where he taught creative writing until 2011. He is currently a Research Professor at Tulane.
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Birth name | Thomas Alexander Sancton |
Also known as | Thomas Sancton, Jr. Tom Sancton, Tommy Sancton |
Born | 1949 (age 74ā75) Jackson, Mississippi, U.S. |
Origin | New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
Genres | Traditional New Orleans jazz |
Occupation(s) | Writer/Journalist Clarinetist Educator |
Instrument(s) | Clarinet, saxophone |
Website | tom-sancton |