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A Bell for Adano by John Hersey

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Name: John Hersey
Birth Date: 17 June 1914
Death Date: 24 March 1993

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Biography of John (Richard) Hersey
10326 words, approx. 34.4 pages
John Hersey earned early recognition, first as a reporter and then as a novelist. His dispatches from Guadalcanal and Sicily for the Henry Luce magazines Time and Life made him one of the best-known correspondents in World War II. As the war was ending,...
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Biography of John Hersey
7566 words, approx. 25.2 pages
In 1950 John Hersey was considered one of the most promising young writers in the nation. His first novel, A Bell for Adano (1944), had won a Pulitzer Prize in 1945, while his journalistic masterpiece of 1946, Hiroshima, with its successful depiction of...
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Biography of John (Richard) Hersey
7359 words, approx. 24.5 pages
John Hersey, the author of more than a dozen novels as well as many sketches, commentaries, articles, and essays, has a well-earned reputation as one of America's most important novelists of the post-World War II period, but it is his work as a journalis...
 


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A Bell for Adano Information
250 words, approx. 1 pages
A Bell for Adano is a 1945 film directed by Henry King starring John Hodiak and Gene Tierney. It is adapted from the novel A Bell for Adano by John Hersey, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1945. The story concerns Italian-American U.S. Army Major...


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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Bell
11/25/2000: 454 words, approx. 2 pages
Bell, MSO unleash power of Romantics By TOM STRINI Journal Sentinel music critic Saturday, November 25, 2000 The Romantic movement in music took composers further and further from their Classical models and sources. By the turn of the century, time-honored...
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The Independent - London
The bells! The bells!
06/07/1997: 1,174 words, approx. 4 pages
In Salisbury library, the fiction stacks on the ground floor are intersected by the bulbous white cabinets of old, streamlined refrigerators. Pull downwards on the chrome handles and the doors open to reveal the surprising contents inside: plastic dinosaurs on skateboards; a ship's lavatory...
 


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A Bell for Adano by John Hersey

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