John Hersey was born in Tientsin, China, in 1914 and lived there until 1925, when his family returned to the United States.
John Hersey died in 1993..
He won the Pulitzer Prize, taught for two decades at Yale, and was president of the Authors League of America and Chancellor of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Beginning in 1947 he devoted his time mainly to writing fiction.
He studied at Yale and Cambridge, served for a time as Sinclair Lewis\'s secretary, and then worked several years as a journalist.
John Hersey was born in Tientsin, China, in 1914 and lived there until 1925, when his family returned to the United States