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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
10,326 words, approx. 34 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...
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Biography of John Hersey
7,566 words, approx. 25 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...
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Biography of John (Richard) Hersey
7,359 words, approx. 25 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...
 


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Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live...


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Hersey, John (1914-1993) Summary
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Born in China to missionaries, John Hersey began his journalism career as a correspondent for Time and went on to cover cover World War II for that magazine and Life. He had already won a Pulitzer Prize for a World War II novel he had written—A...
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John Hersey Information
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John Richard Hersey (June 17, 1914 – March 24, 1993) was an American writer and...


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The Washington Post
John Hersey's People
05/07/1989: 884 words, approx. 3 pages
LIFE SKETCHES By John Hersey Knopf. 377 pp. $19.95 IF JOHN HERSEY were playing baseball and hitting essays, he'd be batting about .333. That's more than passable for baseball. For literature? Well, it's time to warm the bench. One out...
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The Boston Globe
The Case Against John Hersey
07/26/1988: 716 words, approx. 2 pages
M.R. Montgomery's column appears every Tuesday in the Living/Arts section. Jeanette Walls had it first in the July 25 New York magazine Intelligencer column: irate biographer Laurence Bergreen vs. Famous Vineyard Author John Hersey. They've gone two rounds over Bergreen's assertion that Hersey...
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AP News
Stamps honor distinguished journalists
10/5/2007: 635 words, approx. 2 pages
Five journalists who covered the most tumultuous of 20th century times are being honored by the Postal Service."These distinguished journalists risked their lives to report the events that shaped the modern world," said Postmaster General Jack Potter, who announced the stamp series at the Associated...
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AP News
Bette Davis featured on new 2008 stamps
12/27/2007: 737 words, approx. 3 pages
A face that will tease you, and please you and perhaps unease you is coming to the post office next year, it's those Bette Davis eyes.On the 100th anniversary of her birth the great actress will be honored on a commemorative stamp, the 14th in...
 


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