Austin Hoyt
Austin Hoyt had a long career at WGBH Boston primarily devoted to producing, directing and writing historical documentaries and biographies for PBS.
He retired to S. Dartmouth, MA with his wife Felicity where in 2011 he published Bill Levitt in his Own Words, an oral history of the owner of the Alta Lodge in Utah.
Longtime television producer Austin Hoyt of South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, died on July 17, 2026, from complications of coronary heart disease. Read more.
Austin, congratulations. I share your feelings about distribution, much as I love my friends. My graphic memoir, published late last year, sits quietly on Kindle at https://www.amazon.com/Fugitive-Boyhood-under-Hollywood-Blacklist-ebook/dp/B0D6CSWLX5/
With fond regards,
Tony Kahn
I have just finished a book about my experience in the summer of 1959 on the S. Nahanni River in the Northwest Territories of Canada. It is called The Haunting Nahanni, and it explores the deaths of prospectors and trappers in the early 20th century that led the RCMP to call the Nahanni Canada’s “Valley of No Return”.
It is in part a memoir and covers my arrival at GBH and some early career hghlights. If I gave it to all my friends, I would not have any sales, but you can get it at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Haunting-Nahanni-Tales-Canadas-Return/dp/B0G3JHNTDP/