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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 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) — biography from King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa… (more)
Heart of Darkness (Introduction, some editions) 22,846 copies, 375 reviews
Memoirs of a Revolutionary (Foreword, some editions) 428 copies, 7 reviews
The Best American Essays 2001 (Contributor) 232 copies
Granta 84: Over There: How America Sees the World (Contributor) 227 copies, 1 review
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012 (Contributor) 196 copies, 7 reviews
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