Adam Hochschild

is an American author, journalist, and a longtime lecturer at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He has also been a Fulbright Lecturer in India, Regents’ Lecturer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Writer-in-Residence at the Department of History, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Hochschild has also written for The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, Granta, the Times Literary Supplement, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Magazine, The Nation, and other publications. He was also a commentator on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. His best-known works include King Leopold’s Ghost (1998), Bury the Chains (2005), The Mirror at Midnight (1990), and most recently Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.