Adam Hochschild

    Adam Hochschild’s first book, Half the Way Home: a Memoir of Father and Son, was published in 1986. It was followed by The Mirror at Midnight: a South African Journey, and The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin. His Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels collects shorter pieces from several decades. King Leopold's Ghost: a Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa won a J. Anthony Lukas award in the United States, and the Duff Cooper Prize in England. Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves, a history of the British antislavery movement, was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. For the body of his work, he has received awards from the Lannan Foundation, the American Historical Association, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 appeared in 2016 and Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays in 2018. His books have been translated into fourteen languages.

    Hochschild has written for The New Yorker, Harper's, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, Granta, The New York Times Magazine and other publications, and was one of the co-founders of Mother Jones magazine. He teaches at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.