For Immediate Release

Milton, MA -- In celebration of its 125th anniversary, Curry College held an Academic Convocation today in the Miller Gymnasium on the Milton campus, 1071 Blue Hill Avenue.

Curry College faculty, in full regalia, were joined by Adam Hochschild, distinguished author and parent of Curry alumnus Gabriel Hochschild ’99, who received an honorary degree and served as the Convocation’s keynote speaker. Curry College awarded Mr. Hochschild a Doctor of Humane Letters.

Mr. Hochschild, widely published, teaches writing in the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley and has been a commentator for National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.  Three of his books – including his most recent, King Leopold’s Ghost - have been named Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review and Library Journal. King Leopold’s Ghost was also awarded the 1998 California Book Awards gold medal for nonfiction.

Hochschild's books have been translated into five languages and have won prizes from the Overseas Press Club of America, the World Affairs Council, the Eugene V. Debs Foundation, and the Society of American Travel Writers.  His books include Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son (1986), The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey (1990) and The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin (1994).

Hochschild has also written for The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones (which he co-founded), The Nation, and many other magazines and newspapers. Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels won the 1998 PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay.

For more information, please contact:
Fran Gately
(617) 333-2970
fgately@curry.edu

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