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The Wall by John Hersey

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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
10326 words, approx. 34.4 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 ending,...
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Biography of John Hersey
7566 words, approx. 25.2 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 of...
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Biography of John (Richard) Hersey
7359 words, approx. 24.5 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 journalis...
 


News and Journals
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Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Fallen soldier honored by alma mater Hersey graduate is first for school's wall of fame.(News)
09/23/2004: 459 words, approx. 2 pages
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 to...
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Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Conant tips Hersey in OT.(Sports)
12/01/2004: 392 words, approx. 1 pages
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 night...
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The New York Observer
Friday: Standard Athletic and Holes in the Wall
2/3/2006: 359 words, approx. 1 pages
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...
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The New York Observer
The Wall Street Journal Girds Itself for Murdoch
9/25/2007: 817 words, approx. 3 pages
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...
 


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