Quote of the day
The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual.
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)