Hampton Sides speaking at a 2016 literary conference in Napa Valley
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
Nationality
American
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]
^ ab"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.
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enormity would threaten the very fabric of world society. Citations Sides, Hampton (February–March 2007). "The Trial of General Homma". American Heritage...
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Indians (2000). In the early twenty-first century, best-selling writers HamptonSides and David Roberts have reappraised the Carson reputation in their works...
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