Ten Minutes of Tips With Author John Hood

In this segment, our featured author answers questions about what they’re reading, books they like, tips on how to find good books, books that influenced their writing, tips on writing craft and what’s next for them in their writing and reading.

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John Hood is a syndicated columnist, teacher, and foundation executive with a deep passion for both American history and speculative fiction.

The author of several critically acclaimed books of economic and political history, Hood has reported on governments from town councils to Congress and written for the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Military History, and dozens of other publications. A frequent television and radio commentator and winner of the 2016 book award from the North Carolina Society of Historians, he teaches public policy to Duke University graduate students and tap dancing to tweens and teens.

Hood received his BA in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his MA in liberal studies from UNC-Greensboro. He chairs the board of the NC Institute of Political Leadership, co-chairs the steering committee of the NC Leadership Forum, and serves on the boards of State Policy Network, North Carolina Public Radio (WUNC), the John Locke Foundation, the Student Free Press Association, the Martin Center for Academic Renewal, and the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media Foundation.