This week I’m pleased to be interviewing Hampton Sides – historian, award-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author of six books of literary non-fiction. Join us Saturday 9-10 PM to hear about the life and work of a great writer! Hampton is appearing live on September 23rd 7 pm at our very own Bookshop Santa Cruz, so if you enjoy my interview with him, you can meet him in person then and get a book signed! A native of Memphis with a BA in history from Yale, Hampton has guest lectured at Columbia, Stanford, SMU, Yale, and Colorado College. He is also editor-at-large for Outside Magazine and has written for such periodicals as National Geographic, The New Yorker, Esquire, Preservation, and Men’s Journal. His magazine work has been twice nominated for National Magazine Awards for feature writing. His book, Ghost Soldiers, a World War II narrative about the rescue of Bataan Death March survivors, has sold over a million copies worldwide, has been translated into a dozen foreign languages, and was the subject of documentaries on PBS and The History Channel, and was partially the basis for the 2005 Miramax film, The Great Raid. Hampton’s book Blood and Thunder, about the life and times of controversial frontiersman Kit Carson, was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2006 by Time magazine and is currently under development for the screen. His newest book, In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette, a spellbinding tale of heroism and determination in the most unforgiving territory on Earth, has just come out. For more info and to hear previous shows visit www.itsaquestionofbalance.com
