Adam Hochschild
Autor/a de King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Sobre l'autor
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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
Obres de Adam Hochschild
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1998) 4,739 exemplars
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves (2005) — Autor — 919 exemplars
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis (2022) 289 exemplars
Rebel Cinderella: Rose Pastor Stokes: Sweatshop Immigrant, Aristocrat's Wife, Socialist Crusader (2020) 99 exemplars
The Real Heart of Darkness: 1 exemplars
A Hundred Years After the Armistice 1 exemplars
King Leopold's Ghost, 1st, First Edition 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme: An Illustrated Panorama (2013) — Col·laborador — 282 exemplars
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present (2007) — Col·laborador — 183 exemplars
Collected Nonfiction, Volume 1: Selections from the Autobiography, Letters, Essays, and Speeches (Everyman's Library… (2016) — Introducció, algunes edicions — 23 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1942-10-05
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- País (per posar en el mapa)
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- New York, New York, USA
- Llocs de residència
- New York, New York, USA
San Francisco, California, USA - Educació
- Harvard University (BA|History and Literature|1963)
- Professions
- journalist
historian - Relacions
- Hochschild, Arlie Russell (wife)
Hochschild, Harold K. (father) - Organitzacions
- Ramparts (writer and editor)
Mother Jones (co-founder) - Premis i honors
- Duff Cooper Prize
Lannan Literary Award (Nonfiction, 2005) - Agent
- Georges Borchardt, Inc.
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
THE WAR ROOM (1)
Five star books (1)
Read This Next (1)
Review 1 (1)
Best Biographies (1)
Tour of Africa (1)
Feminism (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 15
- També de
- 8
- Membres
- 8,138
- Popularitat
- #2,974
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 226
- ISBN
- 157
- Llengües
- 13
- Preferit
- 13