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.

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.

" 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

* 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.

* 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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