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Adam Hochschild

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Adam Hochschild

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1942-10-05 （New York City, U.S.）
国籍
United States
言語
English
居住地歴
New York City (born) → Berkeley, California, U.S. (resident)

経歴

職業
Writer, Journalist, Historian, Lecturer
活動期間
1963年〜
所属
Mother Jones (co-founder), University of California, Berkeley (Graduate School of Journalism, lecturer), University of California, Santa Cruz (Regents' Lecturer), University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Writer-in-Residence, Department of History)
所属団体
Democratic Socialists of America

学歴

Harvard University
Faculty of Arts and Sciences (History and Literature) / History and Literature
学位: BA
期間: 1959–1963
卒業年: 1963
国: United States
BA in History and Literature

受賞歴

California Book Awards (Gold Medal)
1998
対象作品: King Leopold's Ghost
主催: California Book Awards
結果: Gold Medal
National Book Critics Circle Award (finalist)
1998
対象作品: King Leopold's Ghost
主催: National Book Critics Circle
結果: Finalist
PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
1998
対象作品: Finding the Trapdoor
部門: エッセイ
主催: PEN America
結果: Winner
Duff Cooper Prize
1999
対象作品: King Leopold's Ghost
主催: Duff Cooper Prize Committee
結果: Winner
Mark Lynton History Prize
1999
対象作品: King Leopold's Ghost
主催: Mark Lynton History Prize
結果: Winner
Lionel Gelber Prize
1999
対象作品: King Leopold's Ghost
主催: Lionel Gelber Prize
結果: Winner
National Book Award (finalist)
2005
対象作品: Bury the Chains
主催: National Book Foundation
結果: Finalist
California Book Awards (Gold Medal)
2005
対象作品: Bury the Chains
主催: California Book Awards
結果: Gold Medal
Lannan Literary Award (Nonfiction)
2005
対象作品: For the body of work
主催: Lannan Foundation
結果: Winner
Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History)
2005
対象作品: Bury the Chains
部門: History
主催: Los Angeles Times
結果: Winner
PEN USA Literary Award for Research Nonfiction
2006
対象作品: Bury the Chains
主催: PEN Center USA
結果: Winner
Lionel Gelber Prize
2006
対象作品: Bury the Chains
主催: Lionel Gelber Prize
結果: Winner
Theodore Roosevelt–Woodrow Wilson Prize
2009
主催: American Historical Association
結果: Winner
National Book Critics Circle Award (finalist)
2012
対象作品: To End All Wars
主催: National Book Critics Circle
結果: Finalist
Dayton Literary Peace Prize (winner)
2012
対象作品: To End All Wars
主催: Dayton Literary Peace Prize
結果: Winner
Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2014
主催: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
結果: Elected Fellow
Mark Lynton History Prize (finalist)
2017
対象作品: Spain in Our Hearts
主催: Mark Lynton History Prize
結果: Finalist
California Book Awards (Gold Medal)
2023
対象作品: American Midnight
主催: California Book Awards
結果: Gold Medal
Dayton Literary Peace Prize (runner-up)
2023
対象作品: American Midnight
主催: Dayton Literary Peace Prize
結果: Runner-up
Honorary degrees (Curry College; University of St Andrews)
主催: Curry College; University of St Andrews
結果: Honorary degrees

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

King Leopold's Ghost

1998年 Historical nonfiction

A history of King Leopold II's conquest and private rule of the Congo, detailing atrocities committed and the international human-rights campaign that followed.

Critique of colonialismHuman rightsImperialism

Bury the Chains

2005年 Historical nonfiction

The story of the British abolitionist movement: its leaders, strategies, and how they persuaded the public to end slavery in the British Empire.

Slavery and abolitionSocial movementsMoral persuasion

The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey

1990年 Travel/history essays

Examines tensions in modern South Africa through historical events such as the Battle of Blood River and their contested commemorations.

Memory and historyEthnic conflictCommemoration

The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin

1994年 Journalistic history

Collects interviews with survivors and witnesses of Stalin's reign to explore memory, repression, and the human impact of terror.

MemoryRepressionPersonal testimony

To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918

2011年 Historical nonfiction

Considers the First World War through stories of those who saw it as a noble crusade and those who opposed it.

War and anti-warIndividual narrativesEthics

Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939

2016年 Historical nonfiction

Follows Americans who participated in the Spanish Civil War, portraying internationalism and individual involvement.

InternationalismMemory of warIndividual choices

Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son

1986年 Memoir

A memoir about Hochschild's difficult relationship with his father and the complexities of familial love.

FamilyMemoryReconciliation and conflict

Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes

2020年 Biography / History

A biography of Rose Pastor Stokes tracing her journey from poverty to radical political activism.

BiographyLabor movementPolitical transformation

American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

2022年 Historical nonfiction

Examines violence, political repression, and a crisis of democracy in the United States after World War I.

DemocracyPolitical repressionPostwar society

全著作

  • The Mirror at Midnight
  • The Unquiet Ghost
  • Finding the Trapdoor
  • King Leopold's Ghost
  • Bury the Chains
  • Half the Way Home
  • To End All Wars
  • Spain in Our Hearts
  • Rebel Cinderella
  • American Midnight

作品の翻訳

  • Major works translated into 17 languages

作風・主題

文体
Narrative nonfiction emphasizing storytellingAccessible, explanatory proseApproach that renders history through individual stories
頻出モチーフ
Human rights and justiceCritique of colonialismDepictions of protest and social movementsReexamination of memory and history

評価・遺産

Highly regarded for narrative historical nonfiction on human rights and social justice; influential with both scholars and general readers and recipient of multiple awards and honorary degrees.

関連学会

  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Fellow)

引用

  • "An extraordinarily moving portrait of the complexities and confusions of familial love."
    出典: Michiko Kakutani (The New York Times, 1986 review of Half the Way Home) (1986年)

豆知識

  • Co-founder of Mother Jones magazine.
  • Paternal grandfather Berthold Hochschild co-founded a major American metal/mining company.
  • Was a member of the Democratic Socialists of America as of 1993.