Paul Ham (born 1960) is an Australian author and historian who writes about conflict, religion and the history of ideas.[1] He has published 14 books, mostly with Penguin Random House. His latest is The Soul: A History of the Human Mind. He lives in Sydney and Paris.
Life and career
Ham was born in Sydney. From 1984 to 1998 he worked in London as a business and investment journalist for the Financial Times Group and The Sunday Times (as its investment editor, 1994–1998). In 1992 he co-founded a financial newsletter publishing company, whose titles included Governance and The Money Laundering Bulletin, which he sold in 1997. For part of that period Ham also worked part-time as the editor of Amnesty, the magazine of the British headquarters of Amnesty International. On his return to Australia in 1998, Ham was appointed the Australia correspondent for the London Sunday Times, a post he held for the next 15 years.
In 2010, Ham co-wrote and presented the documentary All the Way, produced by November Films in conjunction with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), based on his history of the Vietnam War, which won the UN Media Peace Award. In 2008 he was involved in the production of a documentary based on Kokoda, produced by Pericles Films, the ABC and Screen Australia.[2] In 2012, Ham set up an electronic publishing business called Hampress, which published short ebooks and classic audiobooks.
Ham is the author of the weekly substack, Who made our minds?, inspired by his book, The Soul. He was a regular contributor to Amazon's Kindle single platform, having published 1913, The Target Committee and, with the psychotherapist Bernie Brown, Honey, We Forgot the Kids, an examination of the state of families and childcare in the West.
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