# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-hersey
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:52:51.295Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-hersey"
name: "John Hersey"
slug: "john-hersey"
description: "John Richard Hersey was an American writer and journalist. He is considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling techniques of fiction are adapted to non-fiction reportage. In 1999, Hiroshima, Hersey's account of the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, was adjudged the finest work of American journalism of the 20th century by a 36-member panel associated with New York University's journalism department."
tagline: "American journalist, novelist, professor (1914-1993)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Johnhersey.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1914-06-17"
deathDate: "1993-03-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.4035033305976
  historical:           22.48960933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump