Adam Hochschild
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Adam Hochschild was born in New York City in 1942. As a college student, he spent a summer working on an anti-government newspaper in South Africa and worked briefly as a civil rights worker in Mississippi in 1964. He began his journalism career as a reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle. Then he visa mer worked for ten years as a magazine editor and writer, at Ramparts and Mother Jones, which he co-founded. He has also written for The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and The Nation. His first book, Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son, was published in 1986. His other books include The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey; The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin; Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels; King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa; Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves; and To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918. He teaches writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Verk av Adam Hochschild
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis (2022) 287 exemplar
Rebel Cinderella: Rose Pastor Stokes: Sweatshop Immigrant, Aristocrat's Wife, Socialist Crusader (2020) 100 exemplar
The Real Heart of Darkness: 1 exemplar
A Hundred Years After the Armistice 1 exemplar
King Leopold's Ghost, 1st, First Edition 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme: An Illustrated Panorama (2013) — Bidragsgivare — 281 exemplar
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 183 exemplar
Collected Nonfiction, Volume 1: Selections from the Autobiography, Letters, Essays, and Speeches (Everyman's Library… (2016) — Inledning, vissa utgåvor — 22 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1942-10-05
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Land (för karta)
- USA
- Födelseort
- New York, New York, USA
- Bostadsorter
- New York, New York, USA
San Francisco, California, USA - Utbildning
- Harvard University (BA|History and Literature|1963)
- Yrken
- journalist
historian - Relationer
- Hochschild, Arlie Russell (wife)
Hochschild, Harold K. (father) - Organisationer
- Ramparts (writer and editor)
Mother Jones (co-founder) - Priser och utmärkelser
- Duff Cooper Prize
Lannan Literary Award (Nonfiction, 2005) - Agent
- Georges Borchardt, Inc.
Medlemmar
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Listor
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Feminism (1)
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