Hampton Sides

Hampton Sides
Hampton Sides at the 2024 National Book Festival
BornWade Hampton Sides
1962 (age 6263)
Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Pen nameW. Hampton Sides (formerly)
OccupationHistorian/Author/Journalist
Alma materYale University (BA)
Period2001–present
GenreNonfiction, history, american history
Notable worksAmericana
Blood and Thunder
Ghost Soldiers
Hellhound on His Trail
In the Kingdom of Ice
The Wide Wide Sea
SpouseAnne Goodwin
Children3 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.