Hampton Sides
| Hampton Sides | |
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| Born | Wade Hampton Sides 1962 Memphis, Tennessee, United States |
| Pen name | W. Hampton Sides (formerly) |
| Occupation | Historian/Author/Journalist |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | BA |
| Alma mater | Yale |
| Period | 2001–present |
| Genre | Non-Fiction, History, American History |
| Notable works |
Americana Blood and Thunder Ghost Soldiers Hellhound On His Trail In the Kingdom of Ice |
| Spouse | Anne Goodwin |
| Children | 3 sons |
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 In 1879, Explorers Set Sail To Solve Arctic Mystery, Once And For All, NPR, August 02, 2014 |
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Hampton Sides: “In the Kingdom of Ice”, Diane Rehm Show, Aug 14 2014 |
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Interview with NPR's Fresh Air, 10-28
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 Booknotes interview with Sides on Ghost Soldiers, September 30, 2001.
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(Wade) Hampton Sides (born 1962) is an American historian, author and journalist. He is the author of Americana, Hellhound on His Trail, Ghost Soldiers, Blood and Thunder, and other bestselling works of narrative history and literary non-fiction.
Sides is editor-at-large for Outside magazine and has written for such periodicals as National Geographic, The New Yorker, Esquire, Men's Journal, and The Washington Post. His magazine work, collected in numerous published anthologies, has been twice nominated for National Magazine Awards for feature writing.
A native of Memphis, Sides attended PDS Memphis and Memphis University School, and graduated from Yale with a BA in history. Sides lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife Anne Goodwin Sides, a journalist and former NPR editor, and their three boys, all soccer players.
He is a past fellow of Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Japan Society, and an Edwards Media Fellow at Stanford University.
He is an advisory board member of the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. Sides has guest-lectured at Columbia, Yale, Stanford, SMU, Colorado College, the Autry National Center of the American West, the American Embassy in Manila, Rehoboth Christian School, and the National World War II Museum, among other venues and institutions. He has appeared as a guest on such national broadcasts as American Experience, the Today show, Book TV, the History Channel, Fresh Air, CNN, CBS Sunday Morning, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, The Colbert Report, Imus in the Morning, and NPR's All Things Considered.
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