The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Jour-

Adam Hochschild was born in New York City in 1942. His first book, 'Half the Way Home: a Memoir of Father and Son,' was published in 1986. "By turns nostalgic and regretful, lyrical and melancholy," wrote Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times, "Half the Way Home creates . . . an extraordinarily moving portrait of the complexities and confusions of familial love . . . conjuring them up with Proustian detail and affection." It was followed by 'The Mirror at Midnight: a South African Journey,' and 'The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin.' 'The Unquiet Ghost' won prizes from the Overseas Press Club of America and the Society of American Travel Writers.

Hochschild's 'Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels,' won the PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay. 'King Leopold's Ghost: a Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa' was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. It also won a J. Anthony Lukas Prize, the Duff Cooper Prize in Great Britain and the Lionel Gelber Prize in Canada. His books have been translated into ten languages.

Besides his books, Hochschild has also written for The New Yorker, Harper's, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, The Times Literary Supplement, The London Review of Books and many other newspapers and magazines. He is a former commentator on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."

Hochschild was a co-founder of Mother Jones magazine, and was an editor and writer there for some years. He now teaches writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, and has been a guest teacher at other campuses in the U.S. and abroad. He spent five months as a Fulbright Lecturer in India. He lives in San Francisco with his wife Arlie, the sociologist and author. They have two sons.