A haunting murder in a quiet town is half the story. The other half lies in the mind of the author. Capote’s cold clarity ...

The publication's first edition came out on February 21, 1925 priced at 15 cents, emblazoned with a caricature of a fictional dandy, inspired by the Count d'Orsay, looking at a butterfly through a ...

The shift towards serious investigative journalism was evident in the groundbreaking 1946 publication of John Hersey’s Hiroshima, which took up an entire issue. The approach of dedicating ...

Most famously, after the dropping of two atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, forcing the Japanese to surrender in 1945, they commissioned John Hersey to return to Japan, interview survivors ...

One of my English-class assignments in high school was to read “Hiroshima” by John Hersey, the first author to give an account of the atomic bombing. This Aug. 6, we will mark the 80th ...

and Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist John Hersey came together for a project of dire importance — to preserve the stories of those who had survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

Drawing on memoirs, works of history (including John Hersey’s 1946 opus ... 29 bomber tasked with dropping its atomic payload over Hiroshima and banking sharply to get out of range before ...

When discussing his vision for the book, Sullivan cites towering examples of literary nonfiction like "The Power Broker" by Robert Caro and "Hiroshima" by John Hersey. For Sullivan, who said he ...

An unidentified man stands next to a tiled fireplace where a house once stood in Hiroshima, Japan, on Sept. 7, 1945. (Stanley Troutman/AP) Review by Karin Tanabe When visitors step inside the ...

(Mainichi/Akiko Hirose) HIROSHIMA -- A grandson of Pulitzer Prize-winning American author John Hersey (1914-1993), who reported on Hiroshima in 1946 by interviewing A-bomb survivors, recently ...

On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped a nuclear weapon on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. In the spring of 1946, writer John Hersey went to Japan to interview some survivors. The result was ...