John Hersey (1) (1914–1993)
Author of Hiroshima
For other authors named John Hersey, see the disambiguation page.
About the Author
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Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
Works by John Hersey
Hiroshima: A New Edition with a Final Chapter Written Forty Years after the Explosion (1946) 14 copies
Hiroshima 7 copies
Hiroshima: La Crónica Sobre Seis Supervivientes De Hiroshima Que Se Convirtió En Un Gran Clásico Del Periodismo… (2015) 5 copies
Best-in-Books: Great American Short Novels - Lost Horizon / Red Pony / Third Man / Single Pebble / Light in the Piazza… (1966) 4 copies
Robert Capa 1 copy
Four Titles by John Hersey 1 copy
2023 31 HIROHISMA 1 copy
Associated Works
Rediscoveries II: Important Writers Select Their Favorite Works of Neglected Fiction (1988) — Contributor — 30 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Hersey, John Richard
- Birthdate
- 1914-06-17
- Date of death
- 1993-03-24
- Burial location
- West Chop Cemetery, Tisbury, Massachusetts, USA
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Tientsin, China
- Place of death
- Key West, Florida, USA
- Cause of death
- cancer
- Places of residence
- Key West, Florida, USA
Tientsin, China
Chongqing, China
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA - Education
- Yale University (BA|1936)
Clare College, Cambridge - Occupations
- writer
journalist
secretary - Relationships
- Lewis, Sinclair (employer)
Day, Barbara Jean (wife) - Organizations
- Time
Life
Skull and Bones - Awards and honors
- Fellow of the American Academy in Rome (1969)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1950)
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1945)
Ansfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction (1951)
National Jewish Book Award for Fiction (1950)
Members
Reviews
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Five star books (1)
THE WAR ROOM (2)
Oral Histories (1)
Walls (1)
Read This Next (1)
Awards
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Statistics
- Works
- 57
- Also by
- 15
- Members
- 11,087
- Popularity
- #2,127
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 192
- ISBNs
- 268
- Languages
- 16
- Favorited
- 9