Talk:John Hersey

Harkness Tower
Why is it in the entry?68.173.91.55 (talk) 23:10, 13 July 2011 (UTC)SLY111

Adds to the bibliography, White Lotus and "The Conspiracy". (Although dealing with issues that are fading into our history, White Lotus, in my opnion, is one of the finest cultural melanges I've ever encountered.) TimBovee 14:10, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * The Conspiracy is pretty good too, set in Nero's Rome it's an epistolary novel centred on the (largely manufactured) Pisonian conspiracy against Nero involving Lucan and Seneca. Lisiate 23:31, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Add to bibliography
Hersey also wrote "A Single Pebble"in 1956, a short novel about an American engineer who travels up the Yangtze Riverin the early 1920's to scout for sites to dam the river. Currently published by Vintage.

Place of Birth
The book, Hiroshima, lists his birthplace as Tientsin.

Legacy
A high school in prospect HIeghts, Illionis is named after him. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.184.95.226 (talk) 22:52, 16 April 2007 (UTC).

"Hiroshima" in the New Yorker
I'm changing this sentence in the "Early Life" section: "The article, which tells the story of six victims of the bombing, ran in its entirety in a single issue of The New Yorker, a precedent for the magazine." Here's why:

1) It doesn't say what it's trying to say. It says the entire article appeared in a single issue, which is no big deal. What's unique about this article is that it was the only article in that issue.

2) The word "precedent" isn't used right. A precedent is an example that gets followed in similar circumstances. Hiroshima didn't set a precedent. It was never done again. I'm changing the sentence to this: "The article, which tells the story of six victims of the bombing, took up the entire issue, which the New Yorker had never done before, nor since." —MiguelMunoz (talk) 23:48, 4 February 2009 (UTC) Good points. I have rewritten just a bit but incorporated your revisions. Regards, MarmadukePercy (talk) 00:16, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Quote above article?
Why is this here? This is definitely not proper format.Fdssdf (talk) 19:00, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

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Eagle Scout
, I did what I could to search online through the first (Dee) and third (Weingarten) cited sources, but was not able to find anything to substantiate the claim that Hersey was an Eagle Scout. I don't have access to the second source (Cheever). If you have access to physical copies of Cheever and Weingarten (or a complete digital copy of Weingarten), perhaps you could add relevant quotes to the references using the  parameter?



I looked for other online sources including obituaries and the bio that the US Postal Service published when the created a stamp in his honor, but none of the sources I found mentioned him even being in the Boy Scouts. I did see in the Dee interview that Hersey mentions Ernest Thompson Seton, who was a pioneer in the Scouting movement, including the Boy Scouts of America, but he just mentions him in passing.

Thanks. – Archer1234 (talk) 02:53, 28 August 2019 (UTC)


 * We use citations for a reason. Some of the material is cited to Dee and Weingarten; the Eagle Scout portion is cited to Cheever. You can find the 220+ page history of the small village in numerous libraries, it's a very authoritative work. On page 77, it tells that Bill Buffum was the first scoutmaster and John Hersey the first Eagle Scout. As well, I worked through the historical society archives in 2014 and remember finding further evidence for that, including Troop 18's own list of eagle scouts, including its earlier existence as "Troop 1". Indeed Hersey is at the very top. ɱ  (talk) 03:46, 28 August 2019 (UTC)


 * , thanks for the info. Does Cheever or other sources have the year he became an Eagle Scout?  I'm looking to update the List of Eagle Scouts with the verified information for Hersey.  He probably earned the Eagle Scout rank sometime between 1927 and 1932 (inclusive) (prior to turning 18 years old).  Thanks. – Archer1234 (talk) 04:40, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Cheever doesn't but I will see what I can find out... ɱ  (talk) 04:42, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I reached out to the village historical society again to see if they may have a date for you. ɱ  (talk) 18:48, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

John Hersey’s Too Far to Walk book
There’s no information about several of the books in the “works” section of the article, for example, Too Far to Walk. Is there any information about the book that could or should be mentioned? I’m reading the mentioned book myself, but I don’t think I could write a whole wikipedia article about it. 12.86.245.70 (talk) 18:15, 29 September 2023 (UTC)