Adam Hochschild

Adam Hochschild was born and raised in New York City, and studied history and literature at Harvard University in the early 1960s. Immediately following his graduation, he worked with civil rights activists in Mississippi, and later with anti-government journalists in South Africa. In the mid-1970s, he co-founded the influential progressive magazine Mother Jones. Hochschild published his first book in 1986, a memoir called Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son. Since then, he’s published a series of successful nonfiction works on a variety of human rights subjects, including the legacy of Josef Stalin, the Boer War in South Africa, the British Empire’s sponsorship of slavery, and the Vietnam War. King Leopold’s Ghost, published in 1998, was one of his most successful books. Hochschild continues to write and lecture across the world.