Adam Hochschild

Adam Hochschild wiki "was born in New York City in 1942. His first book, Half the Way Home: a Memoir of Father and Son, was published in 1986. Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times called it "an extraordinarily moving portrait of the complexities and confusions of familial love. . . firmly grounded in the specifics of a particular time and place, conjuring them up with Proustian detail and affection." It was followed by The Mirror at Midnight: a South African Journey, and The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin. His 1997 collection, Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels, won the PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay. King Leopold's Ghost: a Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa was a finalist for the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award. It also won a J. Anthony Lukas award in the United States, and the Duff Cooper Prize in England. His books have been translated into twelve languages and four of them have been named Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review. His Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire? Slaves, was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award in Nonfiction and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History. His last two books have also each won Canada? Lionel Gelber Prize for the best book on international affairs and the Gold Medal of the California Book Awards. In 2005, he received a Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction.

"Hochschild has written for The New Yorker, Harper's, The New York Review of Books, Granta, The New York Times Magazine, and many other newspapers and magazines. His articles have won prizes from the Overseas Press Club, the Society of Professional Journalists and elsewhere. He was a co-founder of Mother Jones magazine and has been a commentator on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."

"Hochschild has taught narrative writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, and spent half a year as a Fulbright Lecturer in India. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, sociologist and author Arlie Russell Hochschild. They have two sons and one granddaughter." 

"The founding editors of Mother Jones -- Adam Hochschild, Richard Parker, and Paul Jacobs--left Ramparts shortly before its final demise. They inherited the Ramparts mailing list, asked Stermer to design some early covers, and carried on its muckraking."


 * Founder or Advisor, Campaign for America's Future
 * Director, Foundation for National Progress
 * Advisory Board, Human Rights Center of the University of California
 * Honorary Board, Ota Benga Alliance
 * Honorary Director, Polaris Project

Other Publications

 * Coauthor of Memoirs of a Revolutionary (The Iowa Series)
 * Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves (2005) reviewed by Christopher Leslie Brown
 * King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1998)
 * Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels (1997)
 * The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin (1994)
 * The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey (1990)
 * Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son (1986) Review

Criticisms of Hochschild

 * Louis Proyect, "Amazing Grace", The Unrepentant Marxist, February 18, 2007.

Related Sourcewatch articles

 * Harold K. Hochschild Foundation
 * Seymour Drescher