Quote of the day
We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
John Richard Hersey
Born: June 17, 1914
Died: March 24, 1993 (aged 78)
Bio: John Richard Hersey was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer and journalist considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling techniques of fiction are adapted to non-fiction reportage.
Known for:
- Hiroshima (1946)
- A Bell for Adano (1944)
- The Child Buyer (1960)
- The Algiers Motel Incident (1968)
- My Petition for More Space (1974)