John Hersey Books
John Hersey (1914–1993) was an American journalist, novelist, and essayist born in Tientsin, China. After studying at Yale, he worked as a foreign correspondent for Time and Life, reporting from Europe and Asia during…
John Hersey (1914–1993) was an American journalist, novelist, and essayist born in Tientsin, China. After studying at Yale, he worked as a foreign correspondent for Time and Life, reporting from Europe and Asia during World War II. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his 1944 novel A Bell for Adano. Hersey is best known for Hiroshima (1946), his landmark New Yorker account of six survivors of the atomic bombing, which helped establish literary journalism as a major form. His work often explored war, moral responsibility, and the human consequences of political decisions.
