john richard hersey

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Definition of john richard hersey in English English dictionary

born June 17, 1914, Tianjin, China died March 24, 1993, Key West, Fla., U.S. Chinese-born U.S. novelist and journalist. Born to missionaries, he worked as a correspondent in East Asia, Italy, and the Soviet Union in the years 1937-46. His novel A Bell for Adano (1944, Pulitzer Prize) depicts the Allied occupation of a Sicilian town. Hiroshima (1946), about the experiences of atomic-blast survivors, and The Wall (1950), about the Warsaw ghetto uprisings, combine fact and fiction. His later novels encompassed a wide variety of subjects from contemporary issues to moral parables set in the future

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John Hersey

born June 17, 1914, Tianjin, China died March 24, 1993, Key West, Fla., U.S. Chinese-born U.S. novelist and journalist. Born to missionaries, he worked as a correspondent in East Asia, Italy, and the Soviet Union in the years 1937-46. His novel A Bell for Adano (1944, Pulitzer Prize) depicts the Allied occupation of a Sicilian town. Hiroshima (1946), about the experiences of atomic-blast survivors, and The Wall (1950), about the Warsaw ghetto uprisings, combine fact and fiction. His later novels encompassed a wide variety of subjects from contemporary issues to moral parables set in the future

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John Rich·ard Her·sey

Turkish pronunciation

cän rîçırd hırsi

Pronunciation

/ˈʤän ˈrəʧərd ˈhərsē/ /ˈʤɑːn ˈrɪʧɜrd ˈhɜrsiː/