| Date of Birth | 17-June-1914 | |
| Place of Birth |
Tianjin (China) |
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| 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. | ||
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