Awards & Winners

John Hersey

Date of Birth 17-June-1914
Place of Birth Tianjin
(China)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as John Richard Hersey
Profession Journalist, Novelist, Author, Writer, Professor
John Richard Hersey was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer and journalist considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling techniques of fiction are adapted to non-fiction reportage. Hersey's account of the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, was adjudged the finest piece of American journalism of the 20th century by a 36-member panel associated with New York University's journalism department.

Awards by John Hersey

Check all the awards nominated and won by John Hersey.

1961


Nominations 1961 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Fiction The Child Buyer

1960


Nominations 1960 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Fiction The War Lover

1957


Nominations 1957 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Fiction A single pebble

1950


1945


Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Honored for : A Bell for Adano
([Novel])