He is married to sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild.Īdam Hochschild's The Mirror at Midnight is part first-person expeirence from Hochschild's experience traveling through South Africa in 1988 and much larger part South African history. Hochschild's books have been translated into twelve languages.Ī frequent lecturer at Harvard's annual Nieman Narrative Journalism Conference and similar venues, Hochschild lives in San Francisco and teaches writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He was also a commentator on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. Hochschild 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 Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves, published in 2005, is about the antislavery movement in the British Empire. His later books include The Mirror at Midnight: a South African Journey (1990 new edition, 2007), The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin (1994 new edition, 2003), Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels (1997), which collects his personal essays and reportage, and King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1998 new edition, 2006), a history of the conquest and colonization of the Congo by Belgium's King Léopold II. Hochschild's first book was a memoir, Half the Way Home: a Memoir of Father and Son (1986), in which he described the difficult relationship he had with his father. In the mid-1970s, he was one of the co-founders of Mother Jones. He later was part of the movement against the Vietnam War, and, after several years as a daily newspaper reporter, worked as a writer and editor for the leftwing Ramparts magazine. Both were politically pivotal experiences about which he would later write in his book Finding the Trapdoor.
As a college student, he spent a summer working on an anti-government newspaper in South Africa and subsequently worked briefly as a civil rights worker in Mississippi in 1964.
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