John Hersey
John Richard Hersey (1914-1993)[1] was an American author. His works include A Bell for Adano (1944), Hiroshima (1946), and The Wall (1950). He won a Pulitzer Prize for A Bell for Adano.[2]
Life and Works
Hersey was born June 17, 1914, in Tientsin, China to American missionaries, moved to the United States at age 10, and attended the Hotchkiss School, Yale University, and Cambridge University.[3] He first worked as a secretary for Sinclair Lewis and for Time magazine, before working to cover the war in the far east.[4] He survived four plane crashed as a Time reporter during the war.[5] He became famous for his World War Two novels, notably Hiroshima, but also described an apocalyptic 1940s in A Bell for Adano, and The Wall and wrote science fiction in The Child Buyer (1960), a satire on commerce, and White Lotus (1965), a world dominated by China.[6] He died March 24, 1993.[7]
References
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/25/obituaries/john-hersey-author-of-hiroshima-is-dead-at-78.html?pagewanted=all
- ↑ The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference. Prentice Hall, New York: 1991.
- ↑ http://www.biblio.com/john-hersey/author/636
- ↑ http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/john-hersey-4890.php
- ↑ http://amsaw.org/amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-061704-hersey.html
- ↑ http://www.jrank.org/literature/pages/4376/John-Hersey-(John-Richard-Hersey).html
- ↑ "Hersey, John." Encyclopedia Britannica Online.
External links
- Biography by the Poem Hunters
