Hampton Sides
Narrative historian and journalist
Hampton Sides is an American historian and journalist who writes narrative history, including Ghost Soldiers and In the Kingdom of Ice.
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American Born 1962 in Memphis, United States
About Hampton Sides
Wade Hampton Sides was born in 1962 and is a native of Memphis, Tennessee. He studied history at Yale. He has written bestselling narrative history and literary nonfiction, among them Hellhound on His Trail, Blood and Thunder and On Desperate Ground. His book The Wide Wide Sea is in our catalog. He has been editor-at-large for Outside magazine, and his magazine features have twice been recognized in the National Magazine Awards. He has also taught literary journalism and narrative history at Colorado College.