Adam Hochschild’s first book, Half the Way Home: a Memoir of Father
and Son, was published in 1986. It was followed by The Mirror at
Midnight: a Journey into the Heart of South Africa and The Unquiet
Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin. His 1997 collection, Finding the
Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels won the
PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay. King
Leopold’s Ghost: a Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial
Africa won the Duff Cooper Prize in Britain, the Lionel Gelber
Prize in Canada and was a finalist for the 1998 National Book
Critics Circle Award in the United States. Bury the Chains: the
British Struggle to Abolish Slavery was longlisted for the Samuel
Johnson Prize. His most recent book, To End All Wars: a Story of
Protest and Patriotism in the First World War, was published by
Macmillan in 2011 and is also available as a Pan paperback. His
books have been translated into twelve languages.
Hochschild teaches writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at
the University of California at Berkeley and has been a Fulbright
Lecturer in India. He lives in Berkeley with his wife, the
sociologist and author Arlie Hochschild. They have two sons and one
grandchild.
"'Hochschild's marvellous book is a timely reminder of what a small group of determined people, with right on their side, can achieve. Carefully researched and elegantly written, with a pacy narrative that ranges from the coffee houses of London to the back-breaking sugar plantations of the West Indies, it charts the unlikely success of the first internatinal human rights movement' Saul David, Literary Review 'Hochschild is such a gifted researcher and story-teller that he never fails to hold the reader's attention...For all its terrible theme, Hochschild's book is not in the least depressing, because it is suffused with admiration for the courage and enlightenment of the men and women who crusaded against this evil, and finally prevailed' Max Hastings, Sunday Telegraph 'Thought-provoking, absorbing and well-written' Brendan Simms, Sunday Times 'Stirring and unforgettable' Economist"
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