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...

These journalists are out of touch. They don't understand the seismic consequences of the Iraq war, which is slowly transforming our politics (beginning with the Congress). Journalists failed us in that war; Judy Miller disgraced the New York Times by carrying the water for Richard...

With chaos all around him in the World Trade Center, fire safety officer Larry Boisseau calmly called 911 from the south tower lobby, spelling his name and even offering directions to the burning building.Four minutes after he hung up, the building collapsed, killing Boisseau at...

The political ad company that Republican Mitt Romney's presidential campaign says is violating the law with phone calls in support of rival Mike Huckabee is the same firm Romney employed in August to place calls on his behalf before the Iowa straw poll.The firm, ccAdvertising,...