Letter to the Alumni

by John Hersey

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Genres: Education

145 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1970

About the author

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.

Reviews

[dead letter office · Rating 5 out of 5]

hersey's warning about race relations in the US. john hersey is one of the writers (with van der post and joan didion) i most wish i could have met.