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'''John Richard Hersey''' (1914-1993)<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/25/obituaries/john-hersey-author-of-hiroshima-is-dead-at-78.html?pagewanted=all</ref> 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''.<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''. Prentice Hall, New York: 1991.</ref>
'''John Richard Hersey''' (1914-1993)<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/25/obituaries/john-hersey-author-of-hiroshima-is-dead-at-78.html?pagewanted=all</ref> 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''.<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''. Prentice Hall, New York: 1991.</ref>
==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]].<ref>http://www.biblio.com/john-hersey/author/636</ref> He first worked as a secretary for [[Sinclair Lewis]] and for ''Time'' magazine, before working to cover the war in the far east.<ref>http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/john-hersey-4890.php</ref> He survived four plane crashed as a ''Time'' reporter during the war.<ref>http://amsaw.org/amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-061704-hersey.html</ref> 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.<ref>http://www.jrank.org/literature/pages/4376/John-Hersey-(John-Richard-Hersey).html</ref> He died March 24, 1993.<ref>"Hersey, John." ''Encyclopedia Britannica Online''.</ref>
==References==
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==External Links==
*[https://www.poemhunter.com/john-hersey/biography/ Biography] by the Poem Hunters
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[[Category:American Authors]]
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