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What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.
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| Birth: | 17th June, 1914 |
| Death: | 24th March, 1993 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Novelist, Professor |
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John Richard Hersey was born in Tianjin, China. He was an American novelist, journalist and professor. He studied at Yale University and the University of Cambridge. He worked for Time, life, and The New Yorker. He taught his last class in fiction writing at Yale during 1984. He wrote several novels include: A Bell for Adano (Won- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1945), The Child Buyer (Nominations: National Book Award for Fiction), The Wall (Won- National Jewish Book Award for Fiction), The War Lover (Nominations: National Book Award for Fiction), White Lotus, Under the Eye of the Storm, The Conspiracy, My Petition for More Space, The Walnut Door, The Call, A single pebble (Nominations: National Book Award for Fiction), and Antonietta. He wrote other books include: Hiroshima, Aspects of the Presidency, Of Men and War, Too Far to Walk, Letter to the Alumni, Blues, and Into the Valley.
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