University of South Carolina (BA in Journalism) (1956)
Emory University (PhD in American Studies)
Occupation(s)
Author, Journalist
Jack Bass is an American author and journalist. He was born in Columbia, South Carolina to Nathan and Esther (Cohen) Bass in 1934 and grew up in the town of North as the youngest of seven children. He graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1956 with a degree in journalism.[1]
From 1966 to 1973 Bass worked as the Columbia Bureau Chief for The Charlotte Observer as well as a part-time lecturer for journalism at the University of South Carolina. Bass has taught at a number of universities including the University of Mississippi and the College of Charleston.
He was named South Carolina Newspaperman of the Year in 1968 and 1972. His The Transformation of Southern Politics was on the American Library Association's "Notable Books for Adults List" for 1976, and he received a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for "Taming the Storm" in 1994.[3]
He has three children by his first wife Carolyn McClung Smoak, Kenneth Bass, David Bass and Elizabeth Bass Broadway. He has seven grandchildren. He is currently married to his third wife, author and television cooking personality Nathalie Dupree, with whom he lives in Charleston.