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John Hersey


Born
in Tientsin, China
June 17, 1914

Died
March 24, 1993

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John Richard Hersey, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer, earliest practiced the "new journalism," which fuses storytelling devices of the novel with nonfiction reportage. A 36-member panel under the aegis of journalism department of New York University adjudged account of Hersey of the aftermath of the atomic bomb, dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, as the finest piece of journalism of the 20th century. ...more

Average rating: 4.04 · 103,822 ratings · 6,740 reviews · 115 distinct worksSimilar authors
Hiroshima

4.05 avg rating — 88,845 ratings — published 1946 — 55 editions
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A Bell for Adano

3.98 avg rating — 8,918 ratings — published 1944 — 147 editions
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The Wall

4.28 avg rating — 2,015 ratings — published 1950 — 15 editions
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A Single Pebble

3.66 avg rating — 600 ratings — published 1956 — 49 editions
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White Lotus

4.14 avg rating — 399 ratings — published 1965 — 33 editions
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The Child Buyer: A Novel in...

3.82 avg rating — 384 ratings — published 1960 — 65 editions
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My Petition for More Space

3.97 avg rating — 263 ratings — published 1974 — 8 editions
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Blues

3.97 avg rating — 249 ratings — published 1987 — 26 editions
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The Algiers Motel Incident

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3.88 avg rating — 251 ratings — published 1968 — 13 editions
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Into the Valley: Marines at...

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4.10 avg rating — 230 ratings — published 1943 — 54 editions
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“Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.”
John Hersey, Hiroshima

“There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.”
John Hersey, Hiroshima

“Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.”
John Hersey

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