John hershey biography hiroshima
John hershey biography hiroshima
The Legacy of John Hersey’s “Hiroshima” | The National WWII ......
John Hersey
American journalist, novelist and academic (1914-1993)
John Richard Hersey (June 17, 1914 – March 24, 1993) was an American writer and journalist.
He is considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling techniques of fiction are adapted to non-fiction reportage.[1] In 1999, Hiroshima, Hersey's account of the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, was adjudged the finest work of American journalism of the 20th century by a 36-member panel associated with New York University's journalism department.[2]
Background
Hersey was born in Tianjin, China,[3] the son of Grace Baird and Roscoe Hersey, Protestantmissionaries for the YMCA in Tianjin.
Hersey learned to speak Chinese before he spoke English. Later he based his novel, The Call (1985), on the lives of his parents and several other missionaries of their generation.[4]
John Hersey was a descendant