Biography EssayIn 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 journalis...
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"I feel, often, as if I am making my life sketches not with a fine pen or a sharp pencil but with a thickish piece of charcoal," journalist and novelist John Hersey wrote in the introduction to Life S...
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In 1950, John Hersey was considered one of the nation's most promising young writers. His first novel, A Bell for Adano (1944), had won a Pulitzer Prize in 1945, while his journalistic masterpiece of...
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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-...
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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 c...
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In 1950 John Hersey's second novel, The Wall, established him as a fiction writer of some importance. Though his first novel, A Bell for Adano (1944), and a nonfiction account of atomic-bomb victims,...
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Milan, Italy (dpa) - Former Italian prime minister Silvio
Berlusconi's mother Rosa, from whom he has often said he inherited
the drive and ambition propelling his business a...
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Osaka, Japan (dpa) - Results from Sunday's finals at the world
athletics championships.
Women's marathon
1. Catherine Ndereba, Kenya, 2 hours 30 minutes 37 se...
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Osaka, Japan (dpa) -
Women's 100m
1. Veronica Campbell, Jamaica, 11.01
2. Lauryn Williams, United States, 11.01
3. Carmelita Jeter, United States, 11.0...
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Jeremy Wariner anchored the U.S. team to an overwhelming victory
in the men's 4x400 meter relay on Sunday, as the Americans blew away
the field in the curtain-closing event at the athletics w...
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Jeremy Wariner anchored the U.S. team to an overwhelming victory
in the men's 4x400-meter relay on Sunday as the Americans blew away
the field in the curtain-closing eve...
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Zagreb (dpa) - When Blanka Vlasic won the world high jump title
Sunday in Osaka, Japan a euphoric Croatia got its own "Queen of the
world," national media said Monday.
...
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Osaka, Japan (dpa) - Bernard Lagat of the United States emulated
legends Hicham El Guerrouj and Paavo Nurmi when he completed the
first 1,500m and 5,000m double in world cha...
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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 s...
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Osaka, Japan (dpa) - Bernard Lagat of the United States emulated
legends Hicham El Guerrouj and Paavo Nurmi when he completed the
first 1,500m and 5,000m double in world cha...
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Osaka, Japan (dpa) - Bernard Lagat of the United States emulated
legends Hicham El Guerrouj and Paavo Nurmi when he completed the
first 1,500m and 5,000m double in world cha...
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John Hersey
John Hersey
John (Richard) Hersey
ROUNDUP: Berlusconi's mother dies at age 97
