Adam Hochschild'e(tm)s first book, Half the Way Home: a Memoir of Father and Son, was published in 1986. It was followed by The Mirror at Midnight: a Journey into the Heart of South Africa and The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin. His 1997 collection, Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels won the PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay. King Leopold'e(tm)s Ghost: a Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa won the Duff Cooper Prize in Britain, the Lionel Gelber Prize in Canada and was a finalist for the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States. Bury the Chains: the British Struggle to Abolish Slavery was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. His most recent book, To End All Wars: a Story of Protest and Patriotism in the First World War, was published by Macmillan in 2011 and is also available as a Pan paperback. His books have been translated into twelve languages. Hochschild teaches writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and has been a Fulbright Lecturer in India.

He lives in Berkeley with his wife, the sociologist and author Arlie Hochschild. They have two sons and one grandchild.