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- ↑ Hohn profile, Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation website. Accessed Dec. 21, 2012.
- ↑ Hohn, Donovan (June 22, 2008). "Sea of Trash". The New York Times.
- ↑ Hohn, Donovan. "Monsterwellen," Archived February 8, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Outside (Jan. 16, 2009).
- ↑ Hohn profile, Creative Nonfiction website. Accessed Dec. 22, 2012.
- ↑ Press release. "U-M names Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellows," University of Michigan News Service (May 8, 2012).
- ↑ Press release. "2013 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award"
