Hampton Sides
Hampton Sides is best-known for his gripping non-fiction adventure stories set in war or depicting epic expeditions of exploration. He is the author of the bestselling narrative histories Ghost Soldiers, Blood and Thunder, Hellhound On His Trail, In the Kingdom of Ice and On Desperate Ground. His book, The Wide Wide Sea, was named one of the Ten Best Books of 2024 by the New York Times and was featured on Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List. A native of Memphis and a Yale graduate, Sides is a board member of the Society of American Historians and the Author’s Guild. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.