Biography

Jim Hoagland was born on January 22, 1940 in Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA. He was married to Jane Stanton Hitchcock, Jane Murdock, Gretchen Theobald and Elizabeth Becker. He died on November 4, 2024 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.

Washington Post columnist. Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner.

He studied French in school and was sports editor at his high school newspaper.

He was raised primarily by his paternal grandparents, who were farmers. His mother sold insurance while raising two other sons. His father served with the Marine Corps in World War II and later bartended in Chicago.

While attending the University of South Carolina, where he received a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1961, he got his start as a professional newspaperman at the Rock Hill Evening Herald. After his college graduation, Mr. Hoagland did graduate work in Aix-en-Provence, France, and served as a U.S. Air Force intelligence officer in what was then West Germany.

He worked for several newspapers in South Carolina before joining the New York Times in Paris as a copy editor on the newspaper's international edition.