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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION ? John Hersey ? (1914 - 1993) ? Category: ?Chinese Literature ? Born: ?June 17, 1914Tientsin, China ? Died: ?March 23, 1993Key West, Florida, United States ? Related authors:No related authors found ? John Richard Hersey was born in Tientsin, China, on June 17, 1914, to American missionaries Roscoe M. and Grace (Baird) Hersey. Growing up in China, Hersey was out of the mainstream when it came to American attitudes and culture. He spoke Chinese fluently. Hersey exercised his imagination with reading and writing. He attended the British Grammar School and the American School. Later in life, he reported that his memories of growing up in China included a pretty “normal” childhood. Education A major change occurred when Hersey was ten: His father became ill with encephalitis, and the family returned to America and settled in Briarcliff Manor, New York. Hersey became thoroughly “Americanized” during his adolescence. He attended Hotchkiss Preparatory School, where he worked as a waiter and janitor. His undergraduate years were spent at Yale University from 1932 to 1936. Graduating from Yale, Hersey continued his education on a Mellon Scholarship at Clare College, Cambridge University, where he studied eighteenth century English literature. At both Yale and Cambridge, he worked in various jobs as a waiter, librarian, lifeguard, and tutor. Hersey never experienced a life of privilege, and it is possible that the jobs he held while attending college gave him a sympathy for the “common man” that would later show up in his writings. Early Career During the summer of 1937, Hersey was a secretary and gofer for Sinclair Lewis. He left that employment in the fall to apprentice at Time magazine, a business relationship that would extend through 1945. In 1939, he returned to China as a war correspondent at the Chungking bureau of Time. In this capacity, he traveled throughout China and Japan, sending dispatches of military actio