John Hersey

1914–1993

1 standalone book

John Richard Hersey (1914–1993) was an American writer and journalist known for pioneering the New Journalism style, which combined fictional storytelling techniques with non-fiction reporting. He was born in Tientsin, China, to missionaries and moved to the United States at age ten. He attended Hotchkiss School, Yale University, and Cambridge University. In 1937, he worked as a secretary for Sinclair Lewis and later joined Time magazine. During World War II, he reported from Europe and Asia, writing for Time, Life, and The New Yorker. He authored several books, including Hiroshima, which was named the finest American journalism work of the 20th century in 1999. His novel A Bell for Adano won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. He also wrote The Wall, about the Warsaw Ghetto. From 1965 to 1970, he served as head of Pierson College at Yale University and taught writing there.

Born

1914