The New Yorker published Hersey's update in its July 15, 1985, issue, and the article was subsequently appended to a newly-revised edition of the book.

* He is the leading character in John Hersey's 1972 novel portraying Rome as a police state, The Conspiracy.

Later published by Alfred A. Knopf as a book, Hersey's work is often cited as one of the earliest examples of New Journalism in its melding of elements of non-fiction reportage with the pace and devices of the novel.

One of the stories in Hersey's novel was inspired by President John F. Kennedy and the PT-109.

In 1950 Hersey's novel The Wall was published, an account presented as a rediscovered journal recording the genesis and destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, the largest of the Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust.

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.

As a town occupied by the Allies, it served as a model for John Hersey's novel A Bell for Adano.

See John Hersey's Hiroshima novel.

In the early 1960's he moved to Hollywood, where he made The War Lover, starring Steve McQueen, based on John Hersey's novel about a World War II pilot.

* Hersey's novel was also the basis for Paul Osborn's 1945 Broadway play A Bell for Adano, starring Fredric March.

He was survived by his second wife, Barbara ( the former wife of Hersey's colleague at The New Yorker, artist Charles Addams, and the model for Morticia Addams ), Hersey's five children, one of whom is the composer and musician Baird Hersey, and six grandchildren.

In his 1945 review of the film, Bosley Crowther wrote, "... this easily vulnerable picture, which came to the Music Hall yesterday, is almost a perfect picturization of Mr. Hersey's book.

Hersey's account of the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, was adjudged the finest piece of journalism of the 20th century by a 36-member panel under the aegis of New York University's journalism department.

* On June 2, 1956, CBS broadcast a televised version of Hersey's story, starring Barry Sullivan and Anna Maria Alberghetti and directed by Paul Nickell, and on November 15, 1967, The Hallmark Hall of Fame broadcast a version starring John Forsythe and Murray Hamilton and directed by Mel Ferrer.

Hersey's findings suggest that one of men was probably killed when law enforcement personnel were first entering the building, and may have been mistaken for an armed rioter in the confusion, but that the other two were selected after the building had been secured and then taken away from the group into separate rooms and murdered.

There were other attempts at local programming through the years with shows such as We Don't Knock, A. M. Boston, and Hersey's Hollywood.

Shortly after the end of World War II, John Hersey's essay Hiroshima filled an entire issue.

Hersey's article began where the magazine's regular " Talk of the Town " column ran, immediately following the theater listings.

Hersey's spartan prose was praised by critics as a model of understated narrative.

" If ever there was a subject calculated to make a writer overwrought and a piece overwritten, it was the bombing of Hiroshima ", wrote Hendrik Hertzberg, " yet Hersey's reporting was so meticulous, his sentences and paragraphs were so clear, calm and restrained, that the horror of the story he had to tell came through all the more chillingly.

Time magazine later called Hersey's account of the bombing " the most celebrated piece of journalism to come out of World War II.

" But The New Yorkers publication of Hersey's article caused a rift in Hersey's relationship with Henry Luce, the co-founder of Time-Life and Hersey's first mentor, who felt Hersey should have reported the event for one of Luce's magazines instead.

Hersey's death was front-page news in the following day's New York Times.

Shortly before Hersey's death, then Acting President of Yale Howard Lamar decided the university should honor its longserving alumnus.

The result was the annual John Hersey Lecture, the first of which was delivered March 22, 1993, by historian and Yale graduate David McCullough, who noted Hersey's contributions to Yale but reserved his strongest praise for the former magazine writer's prose.

Among Hersey's earlier students at Yale was Michiko Kakutani, currently the chief book critic of The New York Times, as well as film critic Gene Siskel.

In Louis L ' Amour's 1985 historical novel The Walking Drum, Kerbouchard studies and discusses Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine.

Stephen King's 1985 novel " The Tommyknockers " also makes reference to Altair 4, as a desolate wasteland.

In the essay section of his novel 1985, Anthony Burgess states that Orwell got the idea for Big Brother from advertising billboards for educational correspondence courses from a company called Bennett's, current during World War II.

* The Class ( Erich Segal novel ), 1985

The Cider House Rules is a 1985 novel by John Irving.

He spans genres such as science fiction, horror and fantasy, sometimes within the same novel: a typical example of Simmons ' ability to intermingle genres is Song of Kali ( 1985 ), winner of World Fantasy Award.

His first novel, Song of Kali, was released in 1985.

The fate of Laika is a recurring motif in Swedish director Lasse Hallström's 1985 film My Life as a Dog, which is based on a novel by Reidar Jönsson.

Several major computer-related organizations have originated at MIT since the 1980s: Richard Stallman's GNU Project and the subsequent Free Software Foundation were founded in the mid-1980s at the AI Lab ; the MIT Media Lab was founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte and Jerome Wiesner to promote research into novel uses of computer technology ; the World Wide Web Consortium standards organization was founded at the Laboratory for Computer Science in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee ; the OpenCourseWare project has made course materials for over 2, 000 MIT classes available online free of charge since 2002 ; and the One Laptop per Child initiative to expand computer education and connectivity to children worldwide was launched in 2005.

* Greg Bear used the concept of the Noösphere as the interaction space of his ' noöcytes ' when he expanded his short story Blood Music to a full length novel in 1985.

* Ender's Game, a 1985 novel with a similar premise

Radio Free Albemuth is a novel by Philip K. Dick, written in 1976 and published posthumously in 1985.

Robert A. Heinlein dedicated his 1985 novel The Cat Who Walks Through Walls to Anderson and eight of the other members of the Citizens ' Advisory Council on National Space Policy.

Similarly, there is a specific reference to both 1985 and 1986 in the past tense, suggesting the events of the novel took place after these dates.

North Gladiola, a 1985 novel by James Wilcox, opens with a reference to Manon Lescaut, and mentions the character again later in the text.

He is best known for his novel 1985, and The Guest from the Future: Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin.

Novelist John Fowles wrote in 1985 A Maggot, a postmodern historical novel culminating in the birth of Ann Lee, and describing early Shakers in England.

Greg Bear published an expanded version in novel form in 1985.

The completed novel was nominated for the Nebula Award in 1985 and for the Hugo, Campbell, and British Science Fiction Awards in 1986.

Gygax's novel Saga of Old City, released in November 1985, and Artifact of Evil, released two months after Gygax's departure from TSR, proved to be popular titles, and in 1987, TSR hired Rose Estes to continue the series, albeit without Gord the Rogue, to whom Gygax had retained all rights.

In 1985, two years in the making he released his second novel ; De Overkant ( The Other Side ) deals with the damage done by colonialism on the Dutch Indies.

Soon after the series hit its stride, many of the authors produced novels and stories outside the anthologies, beginning with Beyond Sanctuary by Janet Morris, the first " authorized " Thieves World novel, published in 1985.

Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth, a 1985 novel by Nobel Literature Laureate Naguib Mahfouz.

The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1985.

Ender's Game ( 1985 ) is a science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card.