A native of Memphis, Hampton Sides is editor-at-large for Outside magazine, and the author of Ghost Soldiers and Blood and Thunder. Ghost Soldiers served as the basis for a PBS documentary, The American Experience, and was made into a Miramax film, The Great Raid. Sides won the 2002 PEN USA Award for nonfiction, and in 2003 he was nominated for a National Magazine Award.
About his essay collection, Americana, Powell’s books writes, “For more than fifteen years, best-selling author and historian Hampton Sides has traveled widely across the continent exploring the America that lurks just behind the scrim of our mainstream culture. Reporting for Outside, the New Yorker, and NPR, among other national media, the award-winning journalist has established a reputation not only as a wry observer of the contemporary American scene but also as one of our more inventive and versatile practitioners of narrative non-fiction.” Hampton Sides lives in New Mexico with his wife, Anne, and their three sons.

– Random House