Talk:John Hersey
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Adds to the bibliography, White Lotus and "The Conspiracy". (Although dealing with issues that are fading into our history, White Lotus, in my opnion, is one of the finest cultural melanges I've ever encountered.) TimBovee 14:10, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- The Conspiracy is pretty good too, set in Nero's Rome it's an epistolary novel centred on the (largely manufactured) Pisonian conspiracy against Nero involving Lucan and Seneca. Lisiate 23:31, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Add to bibliography
Hersey also wrote "A Single Pebble"in 1956, a short novel about an American engineer who travels up the Yangtze Riverin the early 1920's to scout for sites to dam the river. Currently published by Vintage.
[edit] Place of Birth
The book, Hiroshima, lists his birthplace as Tientsin.
[edit] Legacy
A high school in prospect HIeghts, Illionis is named after him. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.184.95.226 (talk) 22:52, 16 April 2007 (UTC).
