The Washington Post, May 7th, 1989
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 of three of these 18 profiles connects. In the big league, it ought to be all of them. Hersey, 75, the author of 17 novels and five nonfiction books, has collected from The New Yorker, The Yale Review, The New Republic, Life and other publications profiles of both the known-Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, James Agee, Henry Luce, Sinclair Lewis, Lillian Hellman-...
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