Author Bio
Robert Hornick is the author of What Remains: Searching for the Memory and Lost Grave of John Paul Jones (University of Massachusetts Press, June 2017) and The Girls and Boys of Belchertown: A Social History of the Belchertown State School for the Feeble-Minded (University of Massachusetts Press, 2012) as well as several books and articles about Indonesian law and international arbitration.
Hornick grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, graduated from Amherst College and Harvard Law School, and practiced law for 33 years, concentrating on international business transactions and international arbitration. He retired from law practice in 2006 and now teaches part-time at the University of Arizona. He also chairs the Committee to Support Chinese Lawyers, a group based in New York City that tries to help human rights lawyers in China who are being persecuted because of the clients and causes they represent. Hornick has lived in India, Indonesia, and Singapore as well as New York. He and his wife currently reside in Tucson. They have one son who lives in Europe.
