Adam Hochschild
American author, journalist and historian
Adam Hochschild is an American author, journalist and historian who co-founded Mother Jones magazine. He wrote King Leopold's Ghost, a history of King Léopold II's conquest of the Congo.
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American Born 1942 in New York City, United States
About Adam Hochschild
Hochschild was born in New York City in 1942. He worked as a daily newspaper reporter, then as a writer and editor at Ramparts magazine, and in the mid-1970s he helped found Mother Jones. His articles have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine and The New York Times Magazine. His first book was a memoir, Half the Way Home, published in 1986. The National Book Critics Circle named King Leopold's Ghost, first published in 1998, as a finalist for its award. Bury the Chains, which covers the British antislavery movement, reached the final round of the 2005 National Book Award and also took the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In 2008 the American Historical Association gave him its Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service. He has taught writing in the journalism graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley.