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John Richard Hersey

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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American journalist, novelist, professor (1914-1993)

Born 17 June 1914
Died 24 March 1993

Subjects

World War, 1939-1945, History, Fiction, American literature, Drama, Juvenile audience, American Naval operations, Anglo-Saxons, Children's fiction, Mystery and detective stories, Private investigators, Readers (Secondary), amorality, aristocracy, detective fiction, locked-room mysteries, Addresses, essays, lectures-, African Americans in literature, American, American Civil War, American Personal narratives, American children's poetry, American fantasy poetry, American poetry, Authorship

Places

United States, England, Calcutta, India, Surrey, Alabama, Andover, Barbados, China, Connecticut, Detroit, Detroit (Mich.), Eastern Europe, Mallard residence, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Michigan, Milford meeting house, New Haven, Owl Creek Bridge, Pacific Ocean, Salem, Salem (Mass.), Solomon Islands, Soviet Union

People

Grimesby Roylott, Helen Stoner, John H. Watson, Sherlock Holmes, Stroke Moran, Abigail Williams, Ann Putnam, 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, Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), John Hale, John Hathorne, John Hersey (1914-), John Proctor

Time

20th century, 1692, 1861-1865, 1861-65, 1945-1953, 1974-1977, 19th century, American Civil War, Civil War, 1861-1865, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, December

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  • John Hersey
  • John R. Hersey

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