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His article about the dullness of grammar school readers in a 1954 issue of Life magazine, " Why Do Students Bog Down on First R?

A Local Committee Sheds Light on a National Problem: Reading " was the inspiration for The Cat in the Hat.

Further criticisms of the school system came with " The Child Buyer ", a speculative-fiction novel.

Hersey also wrote The Algiers Motel Incident, about a racially-motivated shooting by police during the 12th Street Riot in Detroit, Michigan, in 1968.

Hersey's first novel A Bell for Adano, which won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1945, was adapted into the 1945 film A Bell for Adano directed by Henry King starring John Hodiak and Gene Tierney.

His 1956 short novel, A Single Pebble is the tale of a young American engineer going up the Yangtze on a river junk in the 1920s and discovering that his romantic concepts of China bring disaster.