JOHN HERSEY was born in Tientsin, China, in 1914 and lived there until 1925, when his family returned to the United States. He studied at Yale and Cambridge, served for a time as Sinclair Lewis’s secretary, and then worked several years as a journalist. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, he taught for two decades at Yale, and was a past president of the Authors League of America and past Chancellor of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in 1993.

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