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Hersey, John (Richard)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Hersey, John [Richard] (1914–93), born in Tianjin, China, of American missionary parents, was educated in China...
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John Richard Hersey
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
John Richard Hersey , 1914-93, American author, b. China, grad. Yale, 1936. Reflecting his experiences as a war correspondent in World War...
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Theodore H. White
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...political journalist, b. Boston. After freelancing for the Boston Globe and the Manchester Guardian, he was recruited by John Hersey to cover East Asia for Time magazine, becoming chief of its China bureau (1945). A year later he resigned in a dispute with...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Lawrence, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Albert Camus, along with Americans such as Elizabeth Bowen, Dashiell Hammett, and John Hersey. Knopf's role between 1924 and 1934 as publisher of the iconoclastic magazine The American Mercury, edited until 1933 by...
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Marlee Matlin
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...for the Deaf. At eight years of age, Matlin appeared in productions of The Wizard of Oz and Peter Pan. Matlin attended John Hersey High School in Arlington Heights, also near Chicago. She was among the first generation of hearing-impaired children to...
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Cort Theatre
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...Edmond Jones , had a good run. Also successful were the fine war play A Bell for Adano (1944), based on a novel by John Hersey; Anouilh's Antigone (1946), with Katharine Cornell ; The Diary of Anne Frank (1955) adapted by Frances Goodrich and...
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New Yorker, The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...Not infrequently it devotes a large part of an issue to a feature article concentrating on a significant social issue ( John Hersey's “Hiroshima” occupied an entire issue in 1946), or extends it over several weeks. The body of the...
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Bell for Adano, A
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Bell for Adano, A, novel by John Hersey (1944, Pulitzer Prize), dramatized (1944) by Paul Osborn. Major Victor Joppolo, New Yorker of Italian descent, arrives...
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Ralph Ellison
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings (2001); biographies by L. Jackson (2002) and A. Rampersad (2007); studies by J. Hersey, ed. (1974), R. G. O'Meally (1980), A. Nadel (1988), M. Busby (1991), E. Schor (1993), J. G. Watts...
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Health Belief Model
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Public Health
...smoking behaviors than did the theory of reasoned action, theory of planned behavior, and the PRECEDE-PROCEED model (Mullen, Hersey, and Iverson, 1987). Nevertheless, the health belief model continued to be the most frequently applied model in published...
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