John Hersey

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1959
  • Latest Book:
    September 2019
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Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • The War Lover

    In the immediate sense, this long, eventful and agonizingly suspenseful novel shows what fear, secret hidden fear, can do to even one of those seeming heroes, a war lover. In the longer view, however, this may come to be regarded as the great and ult...

  • The Child Buyer

    An imaginary, utterly absorbing record of the investigations of the Committee on Education, Welfare, and Public Morality of an unnamed state senate into the activities of Mr. Wissey Jones, who has come to the town of Pequot on what he says is urgent ...

  • The Wall

    Riveting and compelling, The Wall tells the inspiring story of forty men and women who escape the dehumanizing horror of the Warsaw ghetto. John Hersey's novel documents the Warsaw ghetto both as an emblem of Nazi persecution and as a personal confro...

  • Too Far to Walk

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    The acclaimed 1966 novel--which recasts the classic Faust legend, setting it in an elite New England college--from one of our most distinguished house authors, John Hersey John Fist is a talented overachiever who has become restless and bored in h...

  • Under the Eye of the Storm

    The acclaimed 1967 novel--in which a deadly storm pits a man against his wife, his friends, and ultimately himself--from one of our most distinguished house authors, John Hersey Dr. Tom Medlar's sailboat, the Harmony, is his pride and joy, and...

  • The Conspiracy

    Nero’s secret police believe they have come on the first hints of a plot against the emperor’s life. Once promising and gifted -- friend of poets, pupil of the great Seneca -- Nero has now bloodied himself and grown fat on power, and he has turne...

  • The Writer's Craft

  • The Walnut Door

    Writing at the height of his powers, John Hersey has created a taut, dazzling novel of suspense and revelation -- in which we watch, mesmerized, the fateful convergence of two lives.           &#...

  • A Bell for Adano

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    This classic novel and winner of the Pulitzer Prize tells the story of an Italian-American major in World War II who wins the love and admiration of the local townspeople when he searches for a replacement for the 700-year-old town bel...



  • A Single Pebble

    A young American engineer sent to China to inspect the unruly Yangtze River travels up through the river's gorges searching for dam sites. Pulled on a junk hauled by forty-odd trackers, he is carried, too, into the settled, ancient way of life of the...

  • The Call

    An American missionary in China, David Treadup, is the protagonist of John Hersey’s magnificent novel, a novel whose richness of character, color, and incident both explores the evangelical impulse in this country -- the peculiarly American spirit ...

  • Blues

    From the revered Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and writer, comes his National Bestseller on one of the world’s oldest and most popular activities, fishing. Presented in narrative form as a conversation between a Fisherman and the Stranger, Hers...

  • White Lotus

    Not too far from now, in a world very like our own, the oppressors have changed places with the oppressed.  After their defeat in the Yellow War, the white people of America are thrust into a brutally altered reality. They are hunted like w...

  • Fling And Other Stories

    Writing in a new and different mode, John Hersey, who has enriched us with such memorable novels as A Bell for Adanoand The Wall, now gives us his first collection of short stories. A superb and witty storyteller, he invents a variety of vo...

  • Antonietta

    A saga of a magnificent violin, Antonietta, named after a beautiful woman who was the inspiration of Antonio Stradivari's later years. As Hersey brings Mozart, Berlioz, and Stravinsky to life, he offers us a marvelous celebration of the changing char...

  • Of Men and War

    Find out how war smells, looks, and feels to fighting men -- and how courage grows from their desperate will to live.In five true stories of World War II -- • Survival• The Battle of the River• Nine Men on a Four-Man Raft• Borie’s Last Batt...

  • Key West Tales

    Alternating a tale of the past that has become a part of Key West legend with a contemporary story that reflects the pulse of life there today, Hersey weaves in these stories a brilliant human tapestry of the place that means a great deal to him. Fro...

  • Hiroshima

  • The Marmot Drive

    The Marmot Drive, a novel of extraordinary force and craftsmanship, deals with certain events on two summer days in an out-of-the-way Connecticut village. The occasion is the decision of the villagers of Tunxis to launch their long-debated drive to r...



  • My Petition for More Space

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    A street in New Haven. A line of people, blocks long, more closely packed than the rush-hour subways of the good old times.             Poynter has been on the line since before dawn, a...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Hersey has published 20 books.

John Hersey does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Marmot Drive, was published in September 2019.

The first book by John Hersey, The War Lover, was published in June 1959.

No. John Hersey does not write books in series.
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