"Hiroshima"
Magazine article
By: John Hersey
Date: August 31, 1946
Source: Hersey, John. "Hiroshima." The New Yorker, August 31, 1946.
About the Author: Born to missionary parents in China, John Richard Hersey (1905–1993) spent nearly the first two decades of life living in eastern Asia. The family did not return to the United States until 1924, after which Hersey began studies for a lengthy journalism career that saw his return to the region of his birth for his most influential work, Hiroshima. Despite his other Pulitzer Prize-winning war reporting and a later novel about the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto (The Wall, 1950), Hersey is still best remembered for his 1946 story about six survivors of the atomic blast. He died in 1993 at the age of 88.
Introduction
Hersey provided readers with some of the most incisive reporting of the evolution of the...
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