For some 30 years, Adam Hochschild’s voice has been one of the most distinctive in American journalism. With grace and wit, he has brought to a startling variety of subjects a combination of adventurous reporting and personal honesty. Hochschild’s readers can count on an unobtrusive erudition, a sense of justice, and an irrepressible curiosity about life.
Admirers of Hochschild’s Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son will find in these articles the same warm autobiographical voice that made that book so memorable: He revisits his time as a civil rights worker in Mississippi, as a New England prep school student, and as a teenager seeing apartheid firsthand in South Africa. But readers will find much more as well: profiles of an adoptive Gypsy and of a governor general’s son turned revolutionary, essays about Ernest Hemingway and John F. Kennedy, a journey to one of the most remote corners of the Amazon rain forest, and a remarkable evocation of two of Hochschild’s personal heroes—who, in hillside trenches at the height of the Russian Civil War, faced each other across a battlefield.
Circa l’autore
Adam Hochschild was born in New York City in 1942. After graduating from college, he worked as a newspaper reporter in San Francisco, and as an editor and writer at
Ramparts magazine. In the mid-1970s, he was a cofounder of
Mother Jones magazine and was an editor there until 1981. He is the author
The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin, The Mirror at Midnight A South
African Journey, and
Half the Way Home: A Memoir
of Father and Son
. His articles and reviews have appeared in many publications, including
Mother Jones, Harper’s, The New York
Times Magazine, and
The Washington
Post.
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