JOHN HERSEY - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 06/22/1974 - HFSID 177493
Price: $350.00
JOHN HERSEY
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author pens this letter of thanks for the
birthday wishes
Autograph Letter Signed: "John Hersey", 1p, 6¼x7. Vineyard
Haven, Massachusetts, 1974 June 22. On personal letterhead to Mr.
Allen. In full: "Many thanks for those kind wishes out of the blue.
Personally I could do without birthdays. I'm enjoying life so much that I don't
much like being reminded of the passage of time! And all good wishes to you."
A former war correspondent in the Pacific and Europe for Time
magazine (1939-1945), John Hersey (1914-1993) brought vivid accounts of
war to readers in such books as Men on Bataan (1942), Hiroshima
(1946), a graphic report on the bombing of the Japanese city, and The
Wall (1950). His 1944 book, A Bell for Adano, the story of the Allied
occupation of Italy, won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Fold
creases not near signature. Otherwise, fine condition.
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