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John Hersey

Best Article World

Hiroshima

The lives of six people who survived the atomic bomb.

John Hersey New Yorker Aug 1946 2h Permalink

Arts

John Hersey: The Art of Fiction No. 92

“My mother kept scrapbooks of everything any of her children did all their lives, and among my scrapbooks are newspapers that I wrote on the typewriter at the age of six, The Hersey Family News, with ads offering my older brothers for various kinds of hard labor at very low wages.”

John Hersey, Jonathan Dee The Paris Review Jun 1986 50min Permalink