Adam Hochschild
Adam Hochschild | |
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B.A.) | |
Occupation(s) | Writer, journalist |
Spouse | Arlie Russell Hochschild |
Children | 2 |
Parent(s) | Mary Marquand Hochschild Harold K. Hochschild |
Family | Berthold Hochschild (grandfather) Allan Marquand (grandfather) Henry Gurdon Marquand (great-grandfather) |
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Adam Hochschild (
Biography
Adam Hochschild was born in New York City. His father, Harold Hochschild, was of German Jewish descent; his mother, Mary Marquand Hochschild, was of English and Scottish descent and the daughter of pioneering art historian Allan Marquand, and an uncle by marriage, Boris Sergievsky, was a World War I fighter pilot in the Imperial Russian Air Force. His German-born paternal grandfather Berthold Hochschild co-founded the mining firm American Metal Company.[2]
Hochschild graduated from
A longtime lecturer at the Graduate School of Journalism at the
He lives in Berkeley, California.[7]
Works
Books
Hochschild's first book was a memoir, Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son (1986), in which he described the difficult relationship he had with his father. In The New York Times, critic Michiko Kakutani called the book "an extraordinarily moving portrait of the complexities and confusions of familial love."[8]
In The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey (1990; new edition, 2007) he examines the tensions of modern South Africa through the prism of the nineteenth-century
In The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin[9] (1994; new edition, 2003), Hochschild chronicles the six months he spent in Russia, traveling to Siberia and the Arctic, interviewing gulag survivors, retired concentration camp guards, former members of the secret police and countless others about Joseph Stalin's reign of terror in the country, during which hundreds of thousands of people died.
Hochschild's Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels[10][11][12] (1997) collects his personal essays and shorter pieces of reportage, as does a more recent collection, Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays (2018)[13]
His King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1998; new edition, 2006) is a history of the conquest of the Congo by King Léopold II of Belgium, and of the atrocities that were committed under Leopold's private rule of the colony, events that led to the twentieth century's first great international human rights campaign. The book reignited interest and inquiry into Leopold's colonial regime in the Congo, but was met by some hostility in Belgium. According to The Guardian' review at the time of the book's first edition, the book "brought howls of rage from Belgium's ageing colonials and some professional historians even as it has climbed the country's best-seller lists."[14]
Hochschild's
In 2011, Hochschild published To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918, which considers the
Journalism
Hochschild has also written for the
Bibliography
Books
- ISBN 978-0-618-75825-8
- ISBN 978-0-618-25747-8
- ISBN 0-8156-0594-3
- ISBN 978-0-618-00190-3
- ISBN 978-0-618-61907-8
- Half the Way Home : A Memoir of Father and Son (Paperback ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 2005 [1986].
- ISBN 978-0-547-75031-6
- ISBN 978-0-547-97318-0
- ISBN 978-0-520-29724-1
- ISBN 978-1-328-86674-5
- American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis (2022), covers the period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties.
Awards
- 1998 California Book Awards, Gold Medal, King Leopold's Ghost
- 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award, finalist, King Leopold's Ghost
- 1998 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, Finding the Trapdoor
- 1999 Duff Cooper Prize, King Leopold's Ghost
- 1999 Mark Lynton History Prize, King Leopold's Ghost
- 1999 Lionel Gelber Prize
- 2005 National Book Award, finalist, Bury the Chains
- 2005 California Book Awards, Gold Medal, Bury the Chains
- 2005 Lannan Literary Awardfor Non-Fiction for the full body of his work.
- 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History, Bury the Chains
- 2006 PEN USA Literary Award for Research Nonfiction, Bury the Chains
- 2006 Lionel Gelber Prize (first person to have won twice)
- 2009 Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Prize from the American Historical Association[16]
- 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award, finalist, To End All Wars
- 2012 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, winner, To End All Wars[17]
- 2014 elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2017 Mark Lynton History Prize, finalist, Spain in Our Hearts
- 2023 California Book Awards, Gold Medal, American Midnight
- 2023 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, runner-up, American Midnight
- Honorary degrees from Curry College in Massachusetts and the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
References
- ^ Kazin, Michael (March 29, 2016). "'Spain in Our Hearts,' by Adam Hochschild". The New York Times. Retrieved November 20, 2018.
- ^ Gordon, Mary (June 15, 1986). "Love In Heavy Armor". The New York Times. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
- ^ "15 Minutes with Adam Hochschild | Magazine | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved January 12, 2024.
- ^ "Adam Hochschild Bio at Mother Jones". Mother Jones.
- ^ "RADICAL MAGAZINE REMOVES EDITOR, SETTING OFF A WIDENING POLITICAL DEBATE". The New York Times. September 27, 1986. Retrieved April 28, 2023.
Mother Jones, which is based in San Francisco, was founded by Mr. Hochschild and others in 1976 as a muckraking magazine of the left that was named in honor of Mary Harris (Mother) Jones, a militant union organizer and Socialist who died in 1930 at the age of 100
- ^ "The Writer-in-Residence Program - History - UMass Amherst". www.umass.edu.
- ^ "Adam Hochschild: On Unlearned History Repeating Itself". writersdigest.com. Retrieved February 18, 2023.
- ^ Coming to Terms, June 21, 1986.
- ^ "THE UNQUIET GHOST by Adam Hochschild - Kirkus Reviews" – via www.kirkusreviews.com.
- publishersweekly.com. Retrieved February 18, 2023.
- ^ "FINDING THE TRAPDOOR". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved February 18, 2023.
- S2CID 110798713. Retrieved February 18, 2023.
- ^ "Review: 'Lessons from a Dark Time,' by Adam Hochschild".
- ^ "The hidden holocaust". the Guardian. May 13, 1999. Retrieved November 7, 2018.
- S2CID 154055686.
- ^ "Adam Hochschild to Receive AHA's Roosevelt-Wilson Prize - Perspectives on History - AHA". www.historians.org.
- ^ Julie Bosman (September 30, 2012). "Winners Named for Dayton Literary Peace Prize". The New York Times. Retrieved September 30, 2012.
External links
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Eleanor Wachtel of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation interviews Hochschild about his life and work
- Terry Gross of NPR's Fresh Air talks to Hochschild about To End All Wars, about American Midnight, and about Spain in Our Hearts
- Interview about the craft of writing
- Fresh Air review of Bury the Chains
- New York Times "By the Book" interviews Hochschild
Book excerpts:
- from American Midnight
- from Spain in Our Hearts
- from To End All Wars
- from Bury the Chains
- from The Unquiet Ghost
- from Rebel Cinderella
Articles:
- When America Tried to Deport its Radicals
- A Hundred Years After the Armistice
- How a Young Army Officer Built America's Empire of Paranoia
- Blood and Treasure
- The Brick Master of Kerala
- on narrative writing, starting on p. 45
- on writing history
- a restorative justice pioneer at work
- An odd museum reckons with a violent past
- The Ghost Still Haunts: Adam Hochschild responds to Bruce Gilley, who follows in kind.
Author biography:
- Hochschild's home page at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California at Berkeley
- Who's Who in America, 62nd Edition (2008)