Hersey, << HUR see, >> John (1914-1993), an American novelist and journalist, became famous for his works about World War II. He won a 1945 Pulitzer Prize for A Bell for Adano. This novel describes the impact of American soldiers occupying an Italian village. Hersey’s best-known nonfiction work, Hiroshima (1946), portrays the destruction of the Japanese city of Hiroshima by an atomic bomb. A new edition of the book was published in 1985.
Hersey was born on June 17, 1914, in Tianjin, China, where his parents were missionaries. He was a war correspondent during World War II. His first book, Men on Bataan (1942), tells his observations of the war. Hersey also wrote The Wall (1950), The Child Buyer (1960), The Algiers Motel Incident (1968), The Conspiracy (1972), The Call (1985), and Blues (1987). He died on March 24, 1993.
