John Hersey, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1958

John Richard Hersey (June 17, 1914 – March 24, 1993) was an American writer and journalist. John Hersey photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1958 Mar. ... John Hersey photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1958 Mar. ... Carl Van Vechten (June 17, 1880 – December 21, 1964) was an American writer and photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein. ... is the 168th day of the year (169th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... is the 83rd day of the year (84th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... Journalism is a discipline of gathering, writing and reporting news, and broadly it includes the process of editing and presenting the news articles. ...

Early life

Born in Tientsin, China, to missionaries Roscoe and Grace Baird Hersey, he returned to the United States with his family when he was ten years old. Hersey attended the Hotchkiss School, followed by Yale University and graduate study as a Mellon Fellow at Cambridge. He obtained a summer job as a secretary for Sinclair Lewis in the summer of 1937, and, that fall, started work at Time. Two years later he was transferred to Time 's Chongqing bureau. Tianjin (Chinese: 天津; pinyin: tiān jīn; Postal System Pinyin: Tientsin) is a harbour municipality in China on the Hai He River (from Beijing) and Bohai Gulf of the Yellow Sea (Pacific Ocean). ... For other uses, see Missionary (disambiguation). ... The Hotchkiss School is an independent, American college preparatory boarding school located in Lakeville, Connecticut. ... Yale redirects here. ... The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and has a reputation as one of the most prestigious universities in the world. ... Sinclair Lewis Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 — January 10, 1951) was an American novelist and playwright. ... TIME redirects here. ... Chongqing (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ; Postal map spelling: Chungching, also Chungking) is the largest and most populous of the Peoples Republic of Chinas four provincial-level municipalities, and the only one in the less densely populated western half of China. ...

Career

During World War II he covered the fighting in both Europe (Sicily) and Asia (Battle of Guadalcanal), writing articles for Time, Life, and The New Yorker. His writings during this time included "Men on Bataan," "Into the Valley," and A Bell for Adano. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Husky was also the codename of Australian military support to Sierra Leone ending in February 2003. ... Operation Watchtower On August 7, 1942, the 1st Marine Division performed an amphibious landing east of the Tenaru River. ... A cover of Life Magazine from 1911 Life has been the name of two notable magazines published in the United States. ... For other uses, see New Yorker. ...

His most notable work was "Hiroshima," a story for The New Yorker about the effects of the atomic bomb dropped on that Japanese city on August 6, 1945.^[1] The article, which tells the story of six victims of the bombing, ran in its entirety in a single issue of The New Yorker, a precedent for the magazine. The article was later published as a book. But the publication of "Hiroshima" in The New Yorker also caused a rift in Hersey's relationship with Henry Luce, the head of Time-Life and Hersey's first mentor, who felt that Hersey should have reported the event for Luce's magazine instead. Hiroshima (ISBN 0-679-72103-7) is the title of a magazine article written by Pulitzer Prize winner John Hersey that appeared in The New Yorker in August 1946, exactly one year after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan, at 8:15 a. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 km (11 mi) above the epicenter. ... is the 218th day of the year (219th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ...

He also wrote the novel The Wall (1950) which gives a graphic account of the birth, development, and destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, the largest of the Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of the Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany in Warsaw, former capital of Poland in the General Government during the Holocaust in World War II. Between 1941 and 1943, starvation, disease and deportations to concentration camps and... For other uses, see Jew (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Ghetto (disambiguation). ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... “Shoah” redirects here. ...

His article about the dullness of grammar school readers in a 1954 issue of Time was the inspiration for The Cat in the Hat. Further criticisms of the school system came with "The Child Buyer," a speculative-fiction novel. Hersey also wrote The Algiers Motel Incident, about racist killings by the police during the 12th Street Riot in Detroit, Michigan, in 1968, A Bell for Adano, which won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1945. The novel was adapted into the 1945 film A Bell for Adano directed by Henry King starring John Hodiak and Gene Tierney. Hersey is also known for his pseudo-chronicle, A Single Pebble, about a young American engineer traversing upstream Yangtze. The Cat in the Hat is a childrens book by Dr. Seuss, featuring a tall, anthropomorphic, mischievous cat, wearing a tall, red and white striped hat. ... Speculative fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The Algiers Motel Incident is the title of a book by John Richard Hersey. ... The riot featured on the cover of the August 4, 1967 edition of Time magazine. ... Detroit redirects here. ... No prize was awarded in 1917. ... See also: 1944 in literature, other events of 1945, 1946 in literature, list of years in literature. ... A Bell for Adano a Film directed by Henry King starring John Hodiak and Gene Tierney in (1945) The film is the story of the Italian-American U.S. Army Major Joppolo, who is placed in charge of the town of Adano during the invasion of Sicily. ... Henry King (* 24th January 1886 in Christiansburg, Virginia; † 29th June 1982 in Toluca Lake, California) was an American film director. ... Actor John Hodiak was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1914. ... Gene Tierney (November 19, 1920 – November 6, 1991) was an American film and stage actress. ... Length 6,380 km Elevation of the source  ? m Average discharge 31,900 m³/s Area watershed 1,800,000 km² Origin Qinghai Province and Tibet Mouth East China Sea Basin countries China The Chang Jiang (Simplified Chinese: 长江; Traditional Chinese: 長江; pinyin: Cháng Jiāng; Wade-Giles: Chang Chiang...

Hersey was the Master of Pierson College, one of the twelve residential colleges at Yale University, from 1965 to 1970. He taught two writing courses, in fiction and non-fiction, to undergraduates. Pierson College is a residential college at Yale University, founded in 1933. ... A residential college system is a housing and educational aspect of certain universities across the world, most notably Oxford University and Cambridge University in the United Kingdom; Yale University, Rice University, and the California Institute of Technology in the United States. ...

A longtime resident of Vinalhaven, Massachusetts, Hersey died at home in Key West, Florida, on March 24, 1993 at the compound he and his wife shared with his friend writer Ralph Ellison. He was survived by his wife, Barbara, his five children, and six grandchildren. Nickname: Coordinates: , Country United States State Florida County Monroe Government  - Type Council-Manager  - Mayor Morgan McPherson Area  - City  7. ... is the 83rd day of the year (84th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... Ralph Ellison (March 1, 1913[1] – April 16, 1994) was a scholar and writer. ...

Honors

On October 5, 2007, the United States Postal Service announced that it would honor five journalists of the 20th century times with first-class rate postage stamps, to be issued on Tuesday, April 22, 2008: Martha Gellhorn, John Hersey, George Polk, Ruben Salazar, and Eric Sevareid.^[1] Postmaster General Jack Potter announced the stamp series at the Associated Press Managing Editors Meeting in Washington. Hersey's "Hiroshima" described the effects of the atomic bomb dropped on Aug. 6, 1945.^[1] he also won the publitzer prize for "A Bell for Adano" For other uses, see 5th October (Serbia). ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... A journalist is a person who practices journalism. ... A selection of Hong Kong postage stamps A postage stamp is evidence of pre-paying a fee for postal services. ... is the 112th day of the year (113th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance to the Gregorian calendar. ... Martha Gellhorn Martha Gellhorn (8 November 1908 - 15 February 1998) was an American novelist and journalist considered one of the greatest war correspondents of the 20th century. ... George Polk, (1913 - 1948) was an American journalist for CBS who disappeared in Greece and was found dead shortly afterwards on Sunday May 16, 1948, shot at point blank range in the back of the head, and with hands and feet tied. ... Ruben Salazar Ruben Salazar (March 3, 1928 - August 29, 1970) was a Mexican-American news reporter killed by the police during the National Chicano Moratorium March against the Vietnam War on August 29, 1970 in Los Angeles, California. ... Pioneering broadcast journalist Eric Sevareid. ... A Postmaster General is the national politician in charge of the postal system of a country. ... A stamp is a distinctive mark or impression made upon an object, for instance those made on a piece of paper and used to indicate the prepayment of a fee or tax. ... For the capital city of the United States, see Washington, D.C.. For other uses, see Washington (disambiguation). ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 km (11 mi) above the epicenter. ...

References

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External links

• "Hiroshima" by John Hersey
• John Hersey High School
• John Hersey at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database