Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Referring to Hersey's article, Harold Ross, the founder of The New Yorker, claimed, "I don't think I've ever got as much satisfaction out of anything else in my life."
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/backissues/2010/06/eighty-five-from-the-archive-john-hersey.html
John Hersey was born in China to missionaries in the year World War I began.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/backissues/2010/06/eighty-five-from-the-archive-john-hersey.html
Also, Hersey spoke Chinese before he spoke English!
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/25/obituaries/john-hersey-author-of-hiroshima-is-dead-at-78.html