John Hersey was born in Tianjin, China, in 1914 to missionary parents. He earned a B.A. at Yale University and studied at Clare College, Cambridge, as a Mellon Fellow.
He helped to pioneer narrative nonfiction. His books include A Bell for Adano (1944), Hiroshima (1946) and The Wall (1950). A Bell for Adano won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. He died in Key West, Florida, in 1993.
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