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This digital document, covering the life and work of John (Richard) Hersey, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 2181 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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Chapters: Henry Luce, John Hersey, Courtlandt Bryan, Warren A. Morton, Alfred Whitney Griswold, G. Mcmurtrie Godley, Alfred N. Phillips, Alejandro Santo Domingo. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 49. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John Richard Hersey (June 17, 1914 March 24, 1993) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer and journalist considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling devices of the novel are fused with non-fiction reportage. Hersey's account of the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, was adjudged the finest piece of journalism of the 20th century by a 36-member panel under the aegis of New York University's journalism department. Born in Tientsin, China, to missionaries Roscoe and Grace Baird Hersey, John Hersey learned to speak Chinese before he spoke English. He returned to the United States with his family when he was ten years old. Later Hersey attended the Hotchkiss School, followed by Yale University, where he was a member of Skull and Bones society. He subsequently was a graduate student at Cambridge as a Mellon Fellow. Following his time at Cambridge, Hersey got a summer job as private secretary and driver for author Sinclair Lewis in 1937, but he chafed at his duties, and that fall he began work at Time, where he was hired after writing an essay on the magazine's dismal quality. Two years later he was transferred to Time's Chongqing bureau. During World War II, newsweekly correspondent Hersey covered fighting in Europe as well as Asia, writing articles for Time as well as Life magazine. He accompanied Allied troops on their invasion of Sicily, survived four airplane crashes, and was commended by the Secretary of the Navy for his role in helping evacuate wounded soldiers from Guad...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=212464 ... Read more

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Uncorrected advance galley proof of John Hersey's novel, The Child Buyer, published by Alfred A. Knopf. Dated September 19, 1960. 172 pages plus a page of notes about author and type. All pages are printed on one side only. Blue card-stock covers bound with darker blue plastic spiral binding. Measures 11.5" tall by 6" wide. Included are two 4"X 6" yellow cards stapled together dated June 23, 1960 with 2 sides typed with a "reader's report" by KW concluding that the satire on education eventually sinks of its own weight. ... Read more

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Chapters: Pearl S. Buck, William Scott Ament, Owen Lattimore, John Hersey, Anna Louise Strong, John S. Service, Joe Alexander, Bonzi Wells, Robert F. Williams, Frank Coe, Joan Hinton, Edgar Snow, Ruth Graham, Sidney Rittenberg, John K. Fairbank, Emily Hahn, China Hands, Jack Belden, William H. Hinton, Solomon Adler, John Leighton Stuart, David Hastings Moore, Darryl Watkins, Sidney D. Gamble, Jimmi Seiter, Ma Haide, Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Agnes Smedley, Carl Crow, Kirk Snyder, Carma Hinton, Ida Pruitt, Douglas T. Ross, Rodney White, Mike Harris, Lenny Cooke, Kasib Powell, Helen Foster Snow, Isabel Ingram, God Shammgod, Gabe Muoneke, Walter Judd, Samuel Wells Williams, Arthur Henderson Smith, Sidney Shapiro, Donta Smith, Keith Closs, F.tillman Durdin, Alice Tisdale Hobart, Samaki Walker, David Vanterpool, Chasity Melvin, Kenny Payne, Herbert George Welch, Erwin Engst, Emily Chang, Jennifer Lacy, Robert Baird Mcclure. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 301. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: William Scott Ament (Chinese Name: Mei Wei Liang) (born 14 September 1851; died 6 January 1909 in San Francisco, California) was a missionary to China for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) from 1877, and was known as the "Father of Christian Endeavor in China." Ament became prominent as a result of his reported heroism during the Boxer Uprising and controversial in its aftermath because of the personal attacks on him by American writer Mark Twain for his collection of punitive indemnities from north China villages. William Scott Ament, ca. 1905) William Scott Ament was born of Dutch and French Huguenot stock on 14 September 1851 in Owosso, Michigan, the eldest son of Winfield Scott Ament (born ca. 1811-1865), an ironworker, and Emily Hammond Ament (born 3 May 1818; ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=20632723 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Hardware Retailing, published by National Retail Hardware Association on May 1, 2009. The length of the article is 921 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Some SAGE advice: John Hersey, one of five keynote speakers at this year's NRHA Convention and All-Industry Conference, July 13-15, in San Antonio, provides six actions to help leaders in hard times.(CONVENTION PREVIEW)(North American Retail Hardware Association)(Conference notes)
Author: John Hersey
Publication: Hardware Retailing (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2009
Publisher: National Retail Hardware Association
Volume: 196Issue: 5Page: 116(2)

Article Type: Conference notes

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : William Styron, John Hersey, Wallace Stegner, John Ciardi, Robert Penn Warren, Elizabeth Bowen, Alfred Kazin, Archibald Macleish. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : William Clark Styron Jr., dit William Styron, né le 11 juin 1925 à Newport News et mort le 1 novembre 2006 sur l'île de Martha's Vineyard, est un écrivain et essayiste américain dont l'œuvre a connu un immense succès populaire et critique. Sa célébrité vient principalement de ses romans, dont les plus connus sont Sur un lit de ténèbres (1951), Les Confessions de Nat Turner (1967), Le Choix de Sophie (1979). L'influence de William Styron s'accroit avec la publication en 1990 de Face aux ténèbres, récit autobiographique d'une profonde dépression dont il parla comme d'un « désespoir au-delà du désespoir ». William Styron est né dans le Hilton Village, le quartier historique de la ville de Newport News, en Virginie. Il grandit dans le sud des États-Unis et fut bercé par son histoire. Son lieu de naissance est situé à moins de 200 kilomètres de l'endroit où se déroula la révolte des esclaves menée par Nat Turner, qui fut le sujet de son roman à la fois le plus célèbre et le plus controversé. Les grands-parents paternels de Styron étaient des propriétaires d'esclaves, mais sa mère, une Yankee venue du Nord, et son père, progressiste, lui transmirent des idées très larges sur les relations raciales aux États-Unis. L'enfance de Styron fut difficile : son père, un ingénieur en construction navale, était atteint d'une dépression, un mal dont Styron devait lui-même souffrir plusieurs décennies plus tard. Sa mère mourut d'un cancer du sein en 1939, alors que Styron n'était encore qu'un enfant, après une décennie de lutte contre la maladie. Styron ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Rowan Williams, John Hersey, Arthur Peacocke, Geoffrey Elton, Andrew White, Nicholas Ferrar, Nicholas Shackleton, Harold Mccarter Taylor, David Howarth, Hugh Latimer, Paul Cartledge, Tim Hunt, Michael Majerus, Ernest Gowers, Stephen Dunnett, Raymond Mcgrath, Barnabas Oley, Robert Hutton, Prabhat Patnaik, Desmond Ackner, Baron Ackner, Malcolm Bowie, Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby, Hector Munro Macdonald, Robert Alexander Rankin, Thomas Seaton, Anthony Snodgrass, Philip Crick, John Guy, Lawrence Paulson, Richard Gilbert West, Mark Santer, Timothy J. Kehoe, Patrick Dean, Sheila Rodwell, Nevill Willmer, William Telfer, Walter Gardiner, Howard Griffiths, Roel Sterckx, Toby Wilkinson, Volker Heine, Alison Sinclair, Simon Franklin. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 165. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Rowan Douglas Williams (born 14 June 1950) is an Anglican bishop, poet and theologian. He is the current (104th) Archbishop of Canterbury, Metropolitan of the Province of Canterbury and Primate of All England, offices he has held since early 2003. Williams was previously Bishop of Monmouth and Archbishop of Wales (making him the first Archbishop of Canterbury in modern times not to be appointed from within the Church of England and the first bishop to serve as primate of two provinces of the Anglican Communion) and had spent much of his earlier career as an academic at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford successively. His primacy has been marked by much speculation that the Anglican Communion (of which the Archbishop of Canterbury is symbolic head) is on the verge of fragmentation and by Williams's attempts to keep all sides talking to one another. Williams was born in on 14 June 1950 in Ystradgynlais, Swansea, Wales, into a Welsh-speaking family. He was the only child of Aneurin Will...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=70537 ... Read more

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Chapters: Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Madeleine L'engle, John Hersey, Rose Wilder Lane, Peter Schiff, Courtlandt Bryan, A. Scott Berg, Rick Moody, Dominick Dunne, Nathan Daboll, Annie Proulx, Richard Slotkin, Steven Millhauser, Armstrong Sperry, Annie Trumbull Slosson, Christopher Anvil, Jay Mcinerney, Elizabeth Gilbert, John Strong Newberry, Frank Deford, John Milton Niles, Karan Mahajan, J. D. Mcclatchy, Carolyn Kepcher, Charles L. Harness, Eileen Albrizio, Rufus Sage, John L. Spivak, Malcolm Macpherson, Jennifer K. Sweeney, Russell Edson, Luanne Rice, Reed Whittemore, Chase Twichell, Jane and Michael Stern, Ravi Shankar, Nicholas Dawidoff, John Hawkes, Jeffrey Levine, Esther Averill, Katharine Brush, Carol Potter, Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie, Rob Kirkpatrick, Jonathan Fast, Legs Mcneil, Mildred Savage, Vicki Hearne, Tryfon Tolides, Cathleen Calbert, Eleanor Estes, A.b.c. Whipple, Wally Lamb, Gertrude Chandler Warner, Jeremy Leven, Leslie Mcgrath, James Gates Percival, Cullen Murphy, Oliver Butterworth, Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Frances Winfield, Earl Lind, Judith St. George, Dorothy Graffe Van Doren, Caroline Lazar, Daniel Waters. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 299. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mark Twain -Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri, on November 30, 1835, to a Tennessee country merchant, John Marshall Clemens (August 11, 1798 March 24, 1847), and Jane Lampton Clemens (June 18, 1803 October 27, 1890). John Marshall Clemens was the first of five children born to Samuel B Clemens and Pamela Goggin (17751844), who married on October 29, 1797 in Bedford County, Virginia. Twain was the sixth of seven children. Only three of his siblings survived childhood: his brother Orion (July 17, 1825 December 11, 1897); Henry, who died in a riverboat...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=154450 ... Read more

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Manzanar by John Armor & Peter Wright
I have this in hardcover and thought I might share some of the details. It is broken down to 16 chapters plus a Welcome and an introduction. The Black & White photography by Ansel Adams makes this worth the price for that feature alone. Known primarily for his outdoor photos, seeing the world of the interred through Mr. Adams' lens is fascinating. Ansel captures everyday life in the camp; from the professional butcher and printer to the youngsters in school and on the playground. The book is informative and educational and if it can be found, is a must purchase. An excellent and thorough look at this dark yet important time in U.S. History.

Ansel Adams Book Review
I had been looking for this boook for several years ;when I saw it on Amazon I was excited. When I recieved it .I t was exactlly as ordered about the Japanese Internment camps with Photography by Ansel Adams and comments by John Hersey. ... Read more