John Hersey
JOHN HERSEY was born in Tientsin, China, in 1914 and lived there until 1925, when his family returned to the United States. He studied at Yale and Cambridge, served for a time as Sinclair Lewis's secretary, and then worked several years as a journalist. Beginning in 1947 he devoted his time mainly to writing fiction. He won the Pulitzer Prize, taught for two decades at Yale, and was president of the Authors League of America and Chancellor of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John...See more
JOHN HERSEY was born in Tientsin, China, in 1914 and lived there until 1925, when his family returned to the United States. He studied at Yale and Cambridge, served for a time as Sinclair Lewis's secretary, and then worked several years as a journalist. Beginning in 1947 he devoted his time mainly to writing fiction. He won the Pulitzer Prize, taught for two decades at Yale, and was president of the Authors League of America and Chancellor of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Hersey died in 1993. See less
John Hersey's Featured Books
John Hersey book reviews
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A Bell for Adano
Hersey's Best
by ladiosa, Jul 24, 2008
This is a truly wonderful little novel. It leaves you feeling good. Although touted as a war novel it is really a novel about one man's aide to a small village and how people of differing cultures ... Read More
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The Wall
A masterwork
by ghmus7, May 24, 2008
This book could possibly be the finest novel of the Jewish experience during WWII. It is an entire world, which one you enter, you will not be able to leave until the book is complete.
The charachers ... Read More
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Hiroshima
August 6, 1945
Hiroshima, Japan; 8:00AM. The all-clear sounds for the earlier air raid siren, and the city's citizens go back to their shopping, their reading . . . their every day tasks at hand. It's a windless ... Read More
