biography
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Hersey, John (Richard)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1914–93)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Tientsin, E China. He studied at Yale, and became a correspondent in the Far East for Time magazine (1937–46). Acclaimed for his clever fictionalizing of fact, his early novel, A Bell for Adano (1944), won the Pulitzer Prize, and was dramatized and filmed. Hiroshima (1946) was the first on-the-spot description of the effects of a nuclear explosion. Other titles include The War Lover (1959), Under the Eye of the Storm (1967), The Walnut Door (1977), and Antonietta (1991). |
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