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John Hersey

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. Beginning in 1947, he devoted his time mainly to writing fiction. 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. John Hersey died in 1993.
Hiroshima
Under the Eye of the Storm
Too Far to Walk
Key West Tales
Antonietta
A Single Pebble
A Bell for Adano
The Wall
Blues

Books

Hiroshima
Under the Eye of the Storm
Too Far to Walk
Key West Tales
Antonietta
A Single Pebble
A Bell for Adano
The Wall
Blues

In Theaters July 21 – Oppenheimer

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, American Prometheus, Oppenheimer is the true story of the development of the atomic bomb in WWII and the man at the center of it all who found himself destroyed by his own horrific weapons of devastation. Shot in the towering IMAX format, Oppenheimer promises to transport audiences directly into

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