John Hersey
American writer and journalist
John Hersey was an American writer and journalist. He wrote Hiroshima, his account of what followed the atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city.
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American Born 1914 in Tianjin, People's Republic of China Died 1993
About John Hersey
John Hersey (1914 to 1993) was born in Tientsin, China, and moved to the United States in 1925. He studied at Yale University and later taught there. In 1945 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel A Bell for Adano. Hersey is counted among the first writers of New Journalism, which brings the techniques of fiction into factual reporting. His book Hiroshima describes the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city. In 1999, a panel of 36 people linked to the journalism department at New York University named it the best American journalism of the 20th century.