John Hersey

John Hersey has written at least 22 books. Their most popular book is Hiroshima with 249 saves with an average rating of 4.08⭐.

Author Bio

John Hersey was born in Tientsin, China, the son of missionaries. He returned to the United States with his family at the age of ten. He attended the Hotchkiss School, then Yale University, then Cambridge University. In 1937 he worked as a secretary for Sinclair Lewis, and that fall he got a position at Time. Two years later he was transferred to Time 's Chongqing bureau. During World War II he reported on the war in both Europe and Asia, writing articles for Time, Life, and The New Yorker. His published several books during this time, including Men on Bataan, Into the Valley, A Bell for Adano (which won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1945), and Hiroshima, his most famous work (originally published in The New Yorker). He also wrote The Wall (1950) about the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust. Hersey was the head of Pierson College at Yale University from 1965-1970, and he taught writing at the undergraduate level there.

Details	Rating	Readers Count
Hiroshima John Hersey	4.08	113 reads
Main Street / Babbitt Sinclair Lewis	3.77	15 reads
A Bell for Adano John Hersey	4.25	5 reads
The Wall John Hersey	4	2 reads
White Lotus John Hersey	0	1 read
The child buyer John Hersey	0	1 read
The Algiers Motel Incident John Hersey	0	0 reads
Hirošima John Hersey Ljudevit Stantić (Translator)	5	1 read
The War Lover John Hersey	0	0 reads
A Single Pebble A Single Pebble John Hersey	0	0 reads
هيروشيما حكايا ستة ناجين من كارثة القنبلة الذرية هيروشيما حكايا ستة ناجين من كارثة القنبلة الذرية John Hersey	0	0 reads
A Tale of Poor Lovers Vasco Pratolini	4	1 read
My Petition for More Space John Hersey	0	0 reads
The Conspiracy John Hersey	0	1 read
Antonietta Antonietta John Hersey	3	1 read
Хиросима John Hersey Джон Херси	0	0 reads
Un solo sassolino John Hersey	0	0 reads
Into the Valley: Marines at Guadalcanal John Hersey	0	0 reads
Too Far to Walk Too Far to Walk John Hersey	3	1 read
Ralph Ellison John Hersey	0	0 reads
Hiroshima John Hersey	0	0 reads
Blues John Hersey	0	0 reads
The marmot drive John Hersey	0	0 reads