Arthur John Langguth (July 11, 1933 – September 1, 2014) was an American author, journalist and educator, born in

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. He was professor of the Annenberg School for Communications School of Journalism at the

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. Langguth was the author of several dark, satirical novels, a biography of the English short story master

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, and lively histories of the

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, the

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, the

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, Afro-Brazilian religion in Brazil and the United States, the

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, the political life of

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and U.S. involvement with torture in Latin America. A graduate of

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(AB, 1955), Langguth was South East Asian correspondent and

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bureau chief for ''

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'' during the

, 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

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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

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and died on September 1, 2014, at the age of 81.

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