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Hoffer, Eric (1902–1983)| US writer whose works, starting with The True Believer 1951, a study of fanaticism and mass movements, won recognition for their pungent, aphoristic style and perceptivity. While writing, Hoffer worked as a migrant farmer, and then as a dockworker 1943–67. He was known as ‘the longshoreman philosopher’. |
| He was born in New York City. Unschooled and temporarily blind as a child, he read voraciously after recovering his sight at the age of 15. |
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