About the Author

Pulitzer Prize winning author, John Richard Hersey (June 17, 1914-March 24, 1993), was born in Tientsin, China to US Missionary parents. Upon graduating from Yale University, he took a post as Far East correspondent for Time Magazine. During W.W.II, Hersey, while accompanying the US Army in the invasion of Sicily and Italy, wrote articles for Life magazine and the New Yorker. His coverage of the war in the Pacific theater resulted in an articles covering the atom bomb blast of Hiroshima as well as the sinking of Lieutenant John F. Kennedy's PT-109.

Other works by Hersey include: Into the Valley, The Marmot Drive, A Single Pebble, Here to Stay, White Lotus, Too Far to Walk, Under the Eye of the Storm, The Writer's Craft, The President, My Petition for More Space, A Bell for Adano, The Wall, The War Lover, The Child Buyer, Letter to the Alumni, The Conspiracy, Antonietta, Hiroshima, The Algiers Motel Incident, and Blues.

Condition

Near fine. Binding tight and square. Pages are tight and clean without crease or stain. No indication of soiling, scuffing, or wear. The condition of this beautiful volume would be, without equivocation, "Fine" with a single exception: the previous owner's name is inscribed/stamped on the front and end papers.