A. J. Langguth, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American journalist, author and educator
Date of Birth: 11-Jul-1933
Place of Birth: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Date of Death: 01-Sep-2014
Profession: historian
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About A. J. Langguth
- Arthur John Langguth (July 11, 1933 – September 1, 2014), known as A.
- J.
- Langguth, was an American author, journalist and educator, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- He was Professor Emeritus of the Annenberg School for Communications School of Journalism at the University of Southern California. Langguth was the author of several dark, satirical novels, a biography of the English short story master Saki, and lively histories of the Trail of Tears, the American Revolution, the War of 1812, Afro-Brazilian religion in Brazil and the United States, the Vietnam War, the political life of Julius Caesar and U.S.
- involvement with torture in Latin America. A graduate of Harvard College (MA, 1955), Langguth was South East Asian correspondent and Saigon bureau chief for The New York Times during the Vietnam war, using the byline "Jack Langguth".
- He also wrote and reported for Look Magazine in Washington, DC and The Valley Times in Los Angeles, California.
- Langguth joined the journalism faculty at USC in 1976.
- He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1976, and received the Freedom Forum Award, honoring the nation's top journalism educators, in 2001.
- He retired from active teaching at USC in 2003. Langguth lived in Hollywood.
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