Author

John Hersey

9 books, mostly historical fiction, for Random House Audio and Recorded Books, 2010–2025

John Hersey (1914–1993) was an American novelist and journalist whose career combined literary fiction with distinguished narrative reporting. He won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his first novel, A Bell for Adano, and became best known for Hiroshima, his landmark 1946 New Yorker account of six atomic-bomb survivors. Beginning in 1947, he devoted most of his time to fiction while continuing to write nonfiction and teach writing at Yale.