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From ReportingCivilRights.com
(June 17, 1914-March 24, 1993) Born John Richard Hersey in Tientsin, China; spent first ten years of life in China. Graduated Yale in 1936; attended Clare College, Cambridge (1936-37). During summer of 1937 worked as driver and private secretary for Sinclair Lewis. Joined staff of Time magazine in 1937 as editor and correspondent, reporting on war from China and Japan (1939), the South Pacific (1942), Sicily and the Mediterranean (1943), and Moscow (1944-45). Won 1945 Pulitzer Prize for novel A Bell for Adano (1944), about Allied occupation of Sicily. Traveled to Japan and China for Life and New Yorker, 1945-46; reported on atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Was master of Pierson College at Yale, 1965-70, and lecturer and professor at Yale from 1971 to 1984.
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John Richard Hersey (June 17, 1914 – March 24, 1993) was an American writer and journalist. Born in Tientsin, China to missionaries Roscoe and Grace Baird Hersey, his family returned to the United States when he was ten years old. Hersey attended the Hotchkiss School, before Yale and graduate study as a Mellon Fellow at Cambridge. He obtained a summer job as a secretary for Sinclair Lewis in the summer of 1937, and, that fall, started work at Time. Two years later he was transferred to Time's Chungking bureau. During World War II he covered the fighting in both Europe (Sicily) and Asia (Battle of Guadalcanal), writing articles for Time, Life, and The New Yorker. His writings during this time included "Men on Bataan", "Into the Valley", and A Bell for Adano.
His most notable work was a story for The New Yorker, entitled "Hiroshima," about the effects of the atomic bomb dropped there on the 6th of August, in 1945. The article, which tells the story of six victims of the bombing, was later turned into a book. His article about the dullness of grammar school readers in a 1954 issue of Time was the inspiration for The Cat in the Hat. Hersey also wrote The Algiers Motel Incident, about racist killings by the police during the 12th Street Riot in Detroit, Michigan, in 1968, and A Bell for Adano, which won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1945. Hersey is also known for his pseudo-chronicle, The Single Pebble about a young American engineer traversing upstream Yangtze.
Hersey was the Master of Pierson College, one of the twelve residential colleges at Yale University, from 1965–1970.
John Hersey died at home in Key West, Florida on March 24, 1993. He is survived by his wife Barbara, his five children, and six grandchildren.
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