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John Hersey

Born

in Tientsin, China

June 17, 1914

Died

March 24, 1993

Genre

History, Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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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

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Average rating: 4.01 · 89,074 ratings · 5,237 reviews · 96 distinct works • Similar authors

	Hiroshima 4.01 avg rating — 75,280 ratings — published 1946 — 287 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Bell for Adano 3.98 avg rating — 8,245 ratings — published 1944 — 123 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wall 4.28 avg rating — 2,009 ratings — published 1950 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Single Pebble 3.63 avg rating — 537 ratings — published 1956 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	White Lotus 4.17 avg rating — 367 ratings — published 1965 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Child Buyer: A Novel in the Form of Hearings Before the Standing Committee on Education, Welfare, and Public Morality of a Certain State Senate 3.82 avg rating — 364 ratings — published 1960 — 58 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Algiers Motel Incident by John Hersey, Thomas J. Sugrue (Introduction) 3.87 avg rating — 235 ratings — published 1968 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Petition for More Space 3.94 avg rating — 229 ratings — published 1974 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blues 3.97 avg rating — 189 ratings — published 1987 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Into the Valley: Marines at Guadalcanal by John Hersey, Donald L. Dickson (Illustrator) 4.08 avg rating — 181 ratings — published 1943 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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

tags: doctor, money, physician, wealth

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

tags: bombing, books, death, hiroshima, japan, ways-to-die, world-war-ii, wwii

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

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Which book would you like to read for our July 2014 Contemporary Classic Group Read?

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

48 votes, 20.8%

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

27 votes, 11.7%

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

26 votes, 11.3%

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

18 votes, 7.8%

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

15 votes, 6.5%

The Stranger by Albert Camus

13 votes, 5.6%

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

12 votes, 5.2%

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

12 votes, 5.2%

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

8 votes, 3.5%

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

8 votes, 3.5%

Hiroshima by John Hersey

7 votes, 3.0%

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

6 votes, 2.6%

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

6 votes, 2.6%

On the Beach by Nevil Shute

5 votes, 2.2%

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

5 votes, 2.2%

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

4 votes, 1.7%

Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello

4 votes, 1.7%

Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor

3 votes, 1.3%

Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf by Alfred Döblin

3 votes, 1.3%

Mister Roberts by Thomas Heggen

1 vote, 0.4%

Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh

0 votes, 0.0%

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