[5] While growing up in Charleston, Hitt lived in the same neighborhood as Dawn Langley Simmons who would receive one of the first sex reassignment surgeries in the United States.

"[11] Hitt lived in an apartment in New York City for about 8 years[12] before he met and married his current wife Lisa Sanders in the late 1980s.

[26] Hitt's New York Times Magazine piece about a dying language called "Say No More"[27] was selected for inclusion in The Best American Travel Writing 2005.

[28] A piece originally published in Harper's titled "Mighty White of You: Racial Preferences Color America's Oldest Skulls and Bones"[29] was selected for inclusion in Best American Science Writing 2006.

[30] Another piece from Harper's titled "Toxic Dreams: A California Town Finds Meaning in an Acid Pit",[31] was included in Ira Glass's The New Kings of Nonfiction (2007).

[32] Jack Hitt and Paul Tough won a Livingston award for an article published in Esquire they wrote about Hackers titled "Terminal Delinquents.

[45] Between 2012 and 2013, Hitt performed a one-man show he wrote about his childhood and the outlandish characters he's met in his life called Making Up The Truth.

[48] Parts of Hitt's novel Off the Road: A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim’s Route into Spain were reworked by Emilio Estevez and Martin Sheen into the movie The Way.