Hawes Spencer
Hawes Spencer is the founder and editor of The Hook, the weekly newspaper in Charlottesville, Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley. He is also a founder of Charlottesville's other alternative newsweekly C-ville Weekly and owned and operated Charlottesville's Jefferson Theater from 1992 to 2006.
Career
[edit]Spencer covered Charlottesville news for 23 years. He founded The Hook on February 7, 2002, with Bill Chapman and Rob Jiranek. Here he worked as the editor-in-chief.[1] He is the author of Summer of Hate, a book about the violence surrounding the Unite the Right rally, the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville in August, 2017.[2][3][4]
References
[edit]- ^ Ingles, Laura. "Hawes Spencer, founder and editor of The Hook, announces his plans to move on". C-Ville. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
- ^ Spencer, Hawes (2018). Summer of Hate: Charlottesville, USA. University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0813942087.
- ^ Webb, Clive (2019). "Summer of Hate: Charlottesville, USA by Hawes Spenser (review)". The Public Historian. 41 (4): 136–137. doi:10.1525/tph.2019.41.4.136. ISSN 1533-8576. Retrieved December 3, 2022.
- ^ Cohen, Michael Mark (2019). "Charlottesville 2017: The Legacy of Race and Inequity ed. by Louis P. Nelson, Claudrena N. Harold, and: Summer of Hate: Charlottesville, USA by Hawes Spencer (review)". Journal of Southern History. 85 (4): 974–976. doi:10.1353/soh.2019.0257. ISSN 2325-6893. Retrieved December 3, 2022.
Sources and external links
[edit]- The Hook
- The Jefferson Theater
- Cavalier Daily article on first weeks of the Hook
- Summer of Hate: Charlottesville, USA
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