Warren Hinckle is an American political journalist based in San Francisco. As a student at the University of San Francisco

University of San Francisco

The University of San Francisco , is a private, Jesuit/Catholic university located in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1855, USF was established as the first university in San Francisco. It is the second oldest institution for higher learning in California and the tenth-oldest university of...

 he wrote for the student newspaper, the San Francisco Foghorn

San Francisco Foghorn

The San Francisco Foghorn is the official student newspaper of the University of San Francisco.Originally founded in 1903 as The Saint Ignatius, the newspaper changed its name to the San Francisco Foghorn in August 1928, making it one of the oldest collegiate newspapers on the West Coast...

. After college he worked for the San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Chronicle

thumb|right|upright|The Chronicle Building following the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake|1906 earthquake]] and fireThe San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California, but distributed throughout Northern and Central California,...

. From 1964 to 1969 he was executive editor of Ramparts

Ramparts (magazine)

Ramparts was an American political and literary magazine, published from 1962 through 1975.-History:Founded by Edward M. Keating as a Catholic literary quarterly, the magazine became closely associated with the New Left after executive editor Warren Hinckle hired Robert Scheer as managing editor...

, a widely circulated, muckracking political magazine of the Catholic left heavily involved in the antiwar New Left politics of the period.

In 1968, he signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. After leaving Ramparts in 1969, Hinckle co-founded and edited the magazine Scanlan's Monthly

Scanlan's Monthly

Scanlan's Monthly was a short-lived monthly publication, which ran from March 1970 to January 1971. Edited by Warren Hinckle III and Sidney Zion, it featured politically controversial muckraking and was ultimately subject to an investigation by the FBI during the Nixon administration. It was...

with New York journalist Sidney Zion

Sidney Zion

Sidney E. Zion was an American writer. His works include Markers, Begin from Beginning, Read All about It, Trust Your Mother but Cut the Cards, , Loyalty and Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob and Markers . He co-authored The Autobiography of Roy Cohn...

. After Scanlan's folded in 1971 he was involved with a number of publications, including editing Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors...

's ambitious City magazine, which ceased publication in 1976. Since 1991 he has been editor and publisher of The Argonaut and its online version, Argonaut360.

Hinckle has written or co-written over a dozen books, including a 1974 autobiography, If You Have a Lemon Make Lemonade.

Hinckle's biography and tenure at Ramparts is described at length in Peter Richardson's A Bomb In Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America.

Books

• A Bomb In Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America by Peter Richardson (New Press: 2009)