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

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.

The series was inspired by ten days Schumann spent in the Occupied Territories of Palestine, as well as John Hersey's ' The Wall ', a graphic account of the birth, development, and destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, the largest of the Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany during the Jewish Holocaust.

In 1946, he persuaded the magazine's founder and editor, Harold Ross, to run John Hersey's story about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima as the entire contents of one issue.

Hersey's 1985 novel, The Call, is closely based on the lives of his parents and several other missionaries of their generation.

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.

* 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.

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

" 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.

See John Hersey's Hiroshima novel.

Both appear in John Hersey's book, Hiroshima.

Similarly, John Hersey's Hiroshima applies the phrase after efforts to assist fatally injured hibakusha ceased.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

" 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.

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

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

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

If there is any truth to Martin of Opava ’ s account of the torture and maiming of Stephen VIII by supporters of Alberic ( see below ), it must have occurred at this juncture, in the aftermath of the conspiracy, and just prior to Stephen ’ s death.

Non-launch costs account for a significant part of the program budget: for example, during fiscal years 2004 to 2006, NASA spent around $ 13 billion on the space shuttle program, even though the fleet was grounded in the aftermath of the Columbia disaster and there were a total of three launches during this period of time.

To account for his presence in numerous histories T. J. Cornell further presumes that they relied on " unscrupulous annalists " who " did not hesitate to invent a series of face-saving victories in the immediate aftermath of these defeats " such as the presumed defeat of Rome at the Naevian Meadow.

F. L. Lucas's novel The English Agent – A Tale of the Peninsular War ( 1969 ), about the Battle of Bailén and its aftermath, is the account of a British Army officer who, gathering information before the first British landings, buys a Frenchwoman at auction to save her from the Spanish mob.

* Michael Quentin Morton, In the Heart of the Desert, Green Mountain Press, 2006, pp. 32 – 4 ( photograph p. 44 ), for an eye-witness account of the immediate aftermath of the bombing by a geologist working for the Iraq Petroleum Company.

In his review of Sir Graham Bower's account, Alan Cousins ( 2004 ) notes that, " A number of major themes and concerns emerge " from Bower's history, "... perhaps the most poignant being Bower ’ s accounts of his being made a scapegoat in the aftermath of the raid: ' since a scapegoat was wanted I was willing to serve my country in that capacity '.

Although some reporting in the aftermath of the match mentions no real injuries the New York Times account of the contest is representative of ringside coverage of the actual event from major newspapers, it describes severe swelling being visible on one side of Willard's face.

Here the Idyll repeats Malory ’ s account of the tournament and its aftermath.

* Banksy's internet-based manifesto contained an account by Mervin Willett Gonin DSO of the immediate aftermath to the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, including an extract from Gonin's diary sourced by the Imperial War Museum.

* The Things They Carried ( 1990 ) by Tim O ' Brien is considered a truthful if knowingly distorted account of O ' Brien's experiences in the Vietnam War and subsequent methods of coping with war's aftermath.

The New York Times Book Review called The Occupation of Iraq "... the most comprehensive historical account of the disastrous aftermath of the American Invasion.

However, statesman Strobe Talbott wrote of the new world order that it was only in the aftermath of the Gulf War that the United Nations took a step toward redefining its role to take account of both interstate relations and intrastate events.

Joseph Roth, born Moses Joseph Roth ( September 2, 1894 – May 27, 1939 ), was an Austrian-Jewish journalist and novelist, best known for his family saga Radetzky March ( 1932 ) about the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and for his novel of Jewish life, Job ( 1930 ) as well as the seminal essay ' Juden auf Wanderschaft ' ( 1927 ; translated into English as The Wandering Jews ), a fragmented account about the Jewish migrations from eastern to western Europe in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution.

Dardenne's account of her abduction and its aftermath are documented in her memoir J ' avais douze ans, j ' ai pris mon vélo et je suis partie à l ' école (" I was twelve years old, I took my bike and I left for school ").

* An account of the incident, the participants and the aftermath

In 1991, Puller told the story of his ordeal and its aftermath in a book titled Fortunate Son, an account that ended with Puller triumphing over his physical disabilities, and becoming emotionally at peace with himself.

In the following episode, " Flight 1 ", Sterling Cooper resigns the account in order to pursue an account with American Airlines, who are considering changing agencies in the aftermath of the Flight 1 disaster.

The Old French Continuation of William of Tyre ( 1230s in its present form ) includes an account of the immediate aftermath which is attributed to Balian's squire Ernoul: Ernoul himself was travelling with his lord and was not present for the actual fighting.

Fergal Keane's Orwell Prize-winning account of his journey through Rwanda during the genocide and its aftermath.

The last two books in the series account for what occurred after the Tablets were returned to Ao, including the aftermath of the ascension of several Company members to godhood ( Midnight took the mantle of Mystra, Kelemvor became god of the dead, and Cyric took several vile deities ' portfolios and went mad ).

The book begins with an account of her interview with Bush and its aftermath.

He is primarily mentioned in Njals saga's account of the Battle of Clontarf of 1014, in the aftermath of which he gruesomely killed Brodir of the Isle of Man to avenge his brother's death at the hands of the invaders:

Mudface's account of the Flood and its aftermath takes up most of the book, and it is by no means a jolly story.