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,...

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...

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...

Antonietta's is a true neighborhood restaurant. It's been in business for 20 years and, while I don't have an old menu to prove it, I'd venture to guess its prices aren't much higher than when it first opened. A plate of pasta with...

Cacchione, Antonietta "Toni" Wednesday, January 16, 2002 Cacchione, Antonietta "Toni" (nee Tullo) Born to eternal life January 14, 2002 at the age of 90. Preceded in death by her beloved husband Joseph Cacchione. Loving mother of Emil (JoAnn), Louise (Michael) Cacchione and...

By most accounts, Michael Devlin had a childhood a lot of kids might envy.An early life in sprawling, graceful homes in one of St. Louis' finest suburbs. A ready-made group of friends in his five siblings. And model-citizen parents whose life centered on their two...