King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa and To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 were both finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Of his earlier books, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the PEN USA Literary Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, appeared in 2016. His preceding book, the biography Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes, was published in 2020. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisisis his most recent. Adam Hochschild (pronunciation: ”Hoch” as in ”spoke” ”schild” as in ”build”) is the author of eleven books.
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