Hank Klibanoff

 ( 1949 Births ) 

Hank Klibanoff (born March 26, 1949, in Florence, Alabama) is an American journalist, now a professor at Emory University. He and Gene Roberts won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for History for the book .

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Early life and education Hank Klibanoff was born and raised in Florence, Alabama. He got an early start in journalism delivering newspapers by bicycle. He graduated from Coffee High School in Florence and attended Washington University in St. Louis, where he studied under Howard Nemerov and received his B.A. in English. He subsequently received a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Northwestern University.

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Career He was managing editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution until June 24, 2008, when he stepped down. He had been deputy managing editor for The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he worked for 20 years. He had also been a reporter for six years in Mississippi and three years at The Boston Globe.

Klibanoff is currently the director of the journalism program at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, as well as the project managing editor of the Civil Rights Cold Case Project.

He hosts a podcast called "Buried Truths" about racial tensions in Georgia during and after the 1948 election. The podcast won a 2018 Peabody Award.

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Family

Klibanoff is father to 3 girls, Eleanor, Caroline and Corinne; he is married to Laurie Leonard.

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Categories: 1949 Births, People From Florence, Alabama, Living People, 20th-century American Male Journalists, Journalism Teachers, Pulitzer Prize For History Winners, Medill School Of Journalism Alumni, Washington University In St. Louis Alumni, Journalists From Alabama, American History Podcasters, 20th-century American Journalists, 21st-century American Journalists, 21st-century American Non-fiction Writers, American Male Non-fiction Writers, 21st-century American Male Writers, Emory University Faculty, 21st-century American Male Journalists

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