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Hochschild was born in New York City as the only child of Harold Hochschild, a mining company executive. As a teenager, Hochschild visited South Africa and became aware to the injustices of racism. He subsequently become active politically, joining the civil-rights movement, demonstrating against the Vietnam War, and working as a reporter for the leftwing Ramparts magazine. Subsequently he was one of the co-founders of Mother Jones.

Hochschild's first book was a memoir, Half the Way Home: a Memoir of Father and Son (1986), in which he described the difficult relationship he had with his father. His later books were The Mirror at Midnight: a South African Journey (1990), The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin (1994), Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels, and King Leopold's Ghost (1998), a book about the colonization of the Congo by Belgium's Leopold II of Belgium. His Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves, to be published in January 2005, is about the antislavery movement in the British Empire. His books have been translated into twelve languages.

Hochschild has also written for The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and The NationFor the township in Ontario see The Nation, Ontario. The Nation is a weekly leftist periodical devoted to politics and culture. Founded in 1865 as a classical liberal publication, it is the oldest weekly in the United States. It is published by the Nation. He was also a commentator on National Public RadioFor other meanings of NPR see NPR (disambiguation National Public Radio NPR is a private, not-for-profit corporation that sells programming to member radio stations; together they are a loosely organized public radio network in the United States. NPR was's All Things Considered.

Hochschild lives in San Francisco and teaches writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, BerkeleyThe University of California, Berkeley (also known as Cal Berkeley UCB or UC Berkeley is a public, coeducational university situated in the foothills of Berkeley, California to the east of San Francisco Bay, overlooking the Golden Gate and its bridge..