Adam Hochschild

Author, journalist

Adam Hochschild is an American author, journalist, historian and lecturer. His books include: American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis (2022), Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes (2020), Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (2016), Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves (2005), King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1998), To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 (2011), Half the Way Home (1986). Earlier in his career, he was a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, a commentator on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, and a co-founder, editor, and writer at Mother Jones magazine. He has received the Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Award from the American Historical Association and in 2014 was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a three-time winner of the California Book Awards’ Gold Medal for Nonfiction. He teaches at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.