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John Hersey

17 June 1914 - 24 March 1993

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. 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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A bell for Adano
19 editions - first published in 1944 Checked out
The wall
12 editions - first published in 1950 Borrow
A single pebble
10 editions - first published in 1956 Borrow
Into the valley
8 editions - first published in 1943
The Algiers Motel incident
8 editions - first published in 1968
The child buyer
8 editions - first published in 1960 Borrow
The call
5 editions - first published in 1985 Borrow
The walnut door
5 editions - first published in 1977 Borrow
Blues
4 editions - first published in 1987 Borrow
The conspiracy
4 editions - first published in 1972 Checked out
Antonietta
3 editions - first published in 1991 DAISY
Here to stay
3 editions - first published in 1962
Life sketches
3 editions - first published in 1989 DAISY
The war lover
3 editions - first published in 1959 Borrow
My petition for more space
2 editions - first published in 1974 DAISY
The marmot drive
2 editions - first published in 1953 Borrow
White lotus
2 editions - first published in 1965 Borrow
Too far to walk
2 editions - first published in 1966 Borrow
Hirośimā
1 edition - first published in 1947
Intelligence, choice, and consent
1 edition - first published in 1959
Klockan i Adano
1 edition - first published in 1944
La muraille
1 edition - first published in 1952
La pared
1 edition
Men on Bataan
1 edition - first published in 1942
Ralph Ellison
1 edition - first published in 1974
A sun will pierce
1 edition - first published in 1936
Under the eye of the storm
1 edition - first published in 1967
Key West tales
1 edition - first published in 1994
The writer's craft
1 edition - first published in 1974 DAISY
Antonietta
1 edition - first published in 1991 DAISY
White lotus
1 edition - first published in 1965 DAISY
A single pebble
1 edition - first published in 1956
Aspects of the presidency
1 edition - first published in 1980
The happy, happy beggar
1 edition - first published in 1946
Ralph Ellison; a collection of critical essays
1 edition - first published in 1974
The child buyer
1 edition - first published in 1961 Borrow
Key West tales
1 edition - first published in 1996 Borrow
Of men and war
1 edition - first published in 1991 Borrow
Of men and war
1 edition - first published in 1963 Borrow
The President
1 edition - first published in 1975 Borrow
White Lotus
1 edition - first published in 1971 Borrow
Hiroshima
1 edition - first published in 1983
Letter to the alumni
1 edition - first published in 1970 DAISY
The child buyer
1 edition - first published in 1960
A bell for Adano
1 edition - first published in 1944 Checked out
Under the eye of the storm
1 edition - first published in 1967 Borrow
Hiroshima.
1 edition - first published in 1966 Checked out
Key West tales
1 edition - first published in 1996 Checked out

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April 12, 2010	Edited by Open Library Bot	Added photos to author pages.
December 24, 2008	Edited by caf21	Edited author name order, added to birth date, added to death date, added wikipedia link, added bio, added photo
September 15, 2008	Edited by ImportBot	Found a matching record from Miami University of Ohio .
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