John Hersey
Novelist, Author
1914 – 1993
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Who was John Hersey?
John Richard Hersey was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer and journalist considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling techniques of fiction are adapted to non-fiction reportage. Hersey's account of the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, was adjudged the finest piece of American journalism of the 20th century by a 36-member panel associated with New York University's journalism department.
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- Born
- Jun 17, 1914
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- John Richard Hersey
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- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Yale University
- University of Cambridge
- The Hotchkiss School
- Died
- Mar 24, 1993
Key West
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on July 23, 2013
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