John Hersey was born in Tientsin, China, the son of missionaries. He returned to the United States with his family at the age of ten. He attended the Hotchkiss School, then Yale University, then Cambridge University. In 1937 he worked as a secretary for Sinclair Lewis, and that fall he got a position at Time magazine. Two years later he was transferred to Time's Chongqing bureau. During World War II he reported on the war in both Europe and Asia, writing articles for Time, Life, and The New Yorker. His published several books during this time, including Men on Bataan, Into the Valley, A Bell for Adano (which won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1945), and Hiroshima, his most famous work (originally published in The New Yorker). He also wrote The Wall (1950) about the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust. Hersey was the head of Pierson College at Yale University from 1965-1970, and he taught writing at the undergraduate level there.
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American journalist, novelist, professor (1914-1993)
| Born | 17 June 1914 |
| Died | 24 March 1993 |
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John Richard Hersey
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American journalist, novelist, professor (1914-1993)
| Born | 17 June 1914 |
| Died | 24 March 1993 |
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Fiction, World War, 1939-1945, History, Atomic bomb, Blast effect, Hiroshima-shi (japan), history, bombardment, 1945, Biography, Fiction in English, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, American literature, Drama, Fiction, historical, general, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, Courage, Hiroshima-shi (japan), bombardment, 1945, Juvenile audience, Large type books, Readers (Secondary), World war, 1939-1945, aerial operations, american, American Naval operations, Anglo-Saxons, Children's fiction, China, fictionPlaces
Japan, United States, Hiroshima-shi, Hiroshima-shi (Japan), China, Detroit (Mich.), England, Alabama, Andover, Barbados, Calcutta, Connecticut, Detroit, Eastern Europe, Hiroshima, India, Italy, Key West (Fla.), Mallard residence, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Michigan, Milford meeting house, Owl Creek Bridge, SalemPeople
Abigail Williams, Ann Putnam, Antonio Stradivari, Arthur Miller (1915-), Betty Parris, Brently Mallard, Bridget Bishop, Devil, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Proctor, Ezekiel Cheever, George Herrick, George Jacobs, Gerald R. Ford (1913-), Giles Corey, God, Grimesby Roylott, Helen Stoner, John H. Watson, John Hale, John Hathorne, John Proctor, Josephine, Louise Mallard, Martha CoreyTime
Bombardment, 1945, 20th century, 1692, 1861-1865, 19th century, Allied occupation, 1943-1947, American Civil War, Civil War, 1861-1865, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, 1861-65, 1945, 1945-1953, 1974-1977, August 6, Bombardeos, 1945, Civil War, 1936-1939, December, Never stated nor indicated, Riot, 1967, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943-
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- OLID: OL394640A
- ISNI: 0000000121462990
- VIAF: 105148984
- Wikidata: Q535812
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- John R. Hersey
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