Hampton Sides | |
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 Hampton Sides at the 2024 National Book Festival | |
| Born | Wade Hampton Sides[1][2] 1962 (age 61–62) Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Pen name | W. Hampton Sides (formerly)[1][3] |
| Occupation | Historian/Author/Journalist |
| Alma mater | Yale University (BA) |
| Period | 2001–present |
| Genre | Nonfiction, 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 |
Wade Hampton Sides (born 1962) is an American historian, author and journalist. He is the author of Hellhound on His Trail, Ghost Soldiers, Blood and Thunder, On Desperate Ground, 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 Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Esquire, Men's Journal, The American Scholar, Smithsonian, and The Washington Post. His magazine work, collected in numerous published anthologies, has been twice nominated for National Magazine Awards for feature writing.[4]
- ^ a b "Westward Ho!". The New Yorker.
- ^ Baccus, Winston. "PDS Names 2011 Distinguished Alumnus - W. Hampton Sides '74". Presbyterian Day School. Archived from the original on June 4, 2016.
- ^ "W. Hampton Sides". Memphis Magazine.
- ^ "Hampton Sides: Blood & Thunder - Pritzker Military Museum & Library - Chicago". www.pritzkermilitary.org.