Adam Hochschild
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Adam Hochschild (born 1942) is an American writer.
Hochschild was born in New York City. As a college student, he spent a summer working on an anti-apartheid newspaper in South Africa, a politically pivotal experience about which he would later write. He subsequently worked briefly as a civil rights worker in Mississippi in 1964, was part of the movement against the Vietnam War, and, after several years as a daily newspaper reporter, worked as a writer and editor for the leftwing Ramparts magazine. In the mid-1970s, he was one of the co-founders of Mother Jones.
Hochschild's first book was a memoir, Half the Way Home: a Memoir of Father and Son (1986), in which he described the difficult relationship he had with his father. His later books include The Mirror at Midnight: a South African Journey (1990), The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin (1994), Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels (1997), which collects his personal essays and reportage, and King Leopold's Ghost (1998), a history of the conquest and colonization of the Congo by Belgium's King Léopold II. King Leopold's Ghost won the Duff Cooper Prize in Britain and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States. Hochschild's Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves, published in 2005, is about the antislavery movement in the British Empire and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Both of his last two books have won the Gold Medal of the California Book Awards, and Bury the Chains won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History. Hochschild's books have been translated into twelve languages. He is the first person to have twice won Canada's Lionel Gelber Prize for the best book on international affairs published in English. In 2005, he was the recipient of a Lannan Literary Award for Non-Fiction.
Hochschild has also written for The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and The Nation. He was also a commentator on National Public Radio's All Things Considered.
Hochschild lives in San Francisco and has taught writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He is married to sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild.
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