Adam Hochschild

Board Member

Adam is a writer and was one of the cofounders of Mother Jones. He is the author of six books: Half the Way Home: a Memoir of Father and Son; 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; and Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves. In 1997-98, he spent five months as a Fulbright lecturer in India, and he teaches a writing class at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.