Professor John Hersey
John Hersey (1914-1993), a prolific and acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction, won a Pulitzer Prize for A Bell for Adano . Yet throughout his life, he was most respected for Hiroshima . According to the New Yorker , "[It] remains his crowning achievement. Though it is imbued with a profound moral sense, it does not preach. It does not hector. It simply tells. The power of it, and of its author, is in the reporting."
John Hersey (1914-1993), a prolific and acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction, won a Pulitzer Prize for A Bell for Adano . Yet throughout his life, he was most respected for Hiroshima . According to the New Yorker , "[It] remains his crowning achievement. Though it is imbued with a profound moral sense, it does not preach. It does not hector. It simply tells. The power of it, and of its author, is in the reporting." See less
