John Hersey
Double Take
A Rare Discovery on the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of John Hersey’s “Hiroshima”
The head librarian at John Hersey High School, in Illinois, uncovers a piece of journalism history.
By Erin Overbey
Books
John Hersey and the Art of Fact
Hersey pioneered a radically new form of journalism. But he grew convinced that his higher calling was fiction, and nobody could persuade him otherwise.
By Nicholas Lemann