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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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  • Cover of: A bell for Adano

    Cover of edition bellforadano00hersrich Cover of edition isbn_0553145738 Cover of edition bellforadano00hers Cover of edition bellforadano00hers_0 Cover of edition bellforadano0000hers_t4t1 First published in 1944 — 31 editions
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  • Cover of: The child buyer: a novel in the form of hearings before the Standing Committee on Education, Welfare, & Public Morality of a certain State Senate, investigating the conspiracy of Mr. Wissey Jones, with others, to purchase a male child

    Cover of edition childbuyernoveli00hers Cover of edition childbuyer00hers First published in 1960 — 16 editions
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  • Cover of: The wall

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  • Cover of: A single pebble: John Hersey.

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    First published in 2007 — 9 editions
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  • Cover of: Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes: The American Experience

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  • Cover of: The Algiers Motel incident

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  • Cover of: Into the valley: a skirmish of the marines

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  • Cover of: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The American Classic, in Words and Photographs, of Three Tenant Families in the Deep South

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American journalist, novelist, professor (1914-1993)

Born 17 June 1914
Died 24 March 1993

Subjects

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, Fiction, historical, general, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), World war, 1939-1945, aerial operations, american, American literature, Courage, Drama, Hiroshima-shi (japan), bombardment, 1945, Juvenile audience, Large type books, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, American Naval operations, Anglo-Saxons, Children's fiction, China, fiction, Description and travel

Places

Japan, Hiroshima-shi, United States, Hiroshima-shi (Japan), China, Detroit (Mich.), England, Calcutta, Connecticut, Detroit, Hiroshima, India, Italy, Key West (Fla.), Michigan, Surrey, Alabama, Andover, Arizona, Barbados, Bataan (Luzon), Eastern Europe, Hiroshima (Japón), Japón, Mallard residence

People

Antonio Stradivari, Gerald R. Ford (1913-), Grimesby Roylott, Helen Stoner, John H. Watson, Sherlock Holmes, Stroke Moran, Abigail Williams, Ann Putnam, Antonio Stradivari (d. 1737), Arthur Miller (1915-), Betty Parris, Brently Mallard, Bridget Bishop, Devil, Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), Elizabeth, Elizabeth Proctor, Ezekiel Cheever, George Herrick, George Jacobs, Gerald R. Ford, Gerald R. Ford (1913-2006), Giles Corey, God

Time

Bombardment, 1945, 20th century, Allied occupation, 1943-1947, 1692, 1861-1865, 1861-65, 1945, 1945-1953, 1974-1977, 19th century, American Civil War, August 6, Bombardeos, 1945, Civil War, 1861-1865, Civil War, 1936-1939, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, December, Never stated nor indicated, Riot, 1967, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943

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