Hank Stuever is The Washington Post’s TV critic.
He joined the Post’s Style section in 1999 as a features writer covering popular culture. He has also been a reporter for newspapers in Albuquerque and Austin, and has twice been named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing. Stuever is the author of Off Ramp, an essay collection, and Tinsel, a nonfiction book about Christmas. He has appeared on Today, The View, The Early Show, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, MSNBC and National Public Radio. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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- Born in 1968 in Oklahoma City, grew up there
- Youngest of four; has three older sisters
- Chronic, accidental arm-breaker in childhood (in separate mishaps involving monkeybars)
- Spent adolescence drawing, listening to records, reading Rolling Stone, hanging out at malls, going to movies, talking in class, worrying
- First car: old VW bug (with kelly green paint job)
- First job: The Gift Horse, Shepherd Mall
- Bishop McGuinness High School, class of ’86
- Spent most of college in the offices of the Loyola Maroon
- Journalism degree (BA,’90) from Loyola University in New Orleans
- First journalism job: general assignment reporter, Albuquerque Tribune
- Current ride: Pontiac Vibe
- Passing interests: indie rock, reading, long walks, drivin’ around, chit-chat, movies. No hobbies, no pets, no muss, no fuss
- Drug of choice: Diet Pepsi
- Loves (and lives with): Michael Wichita, a photo editor and photographer