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...

Byline: Erin Holmes Daily Herald Staff Writer In four simple paragraphs, the plaque that will hang inside John Hersey High sums up the life of graduate Paul Syverson, listing awards and achievements claimed by the man who will become the first inductee...

Byline: Howard Schlossberg Daily Herald Correspondent If Conant is a team that finds a way to win, then Hersey backs you up against the wall and makes you find that way. The Huskies applied end-to-end pressure on the Cougars on Tuesday...

Design review boards are the "queer eye for the straight guy" of civic policy, and approve or disapprove of the aesthetic of community buildings http://www.inman.com/inmanstories.aspx?ID=49869 ">(Inman News) Life on Vashon Island, just a commute over the Puget Sound or an Internet line to...

It’s still nearly two months until News Corp. officially closes on Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal’s parent. But there’s growing evidence that at The Journal, the Rupert Murdoch era has already begun. On September 17, the paper announced that it would launch Pursuits, a...