FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, FEBRUARY 1991

Copyright © 1989 by John Hersey

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York in 1989.

Owing to limitations of space, acknowledgments to reprint previously published material may be found on this page.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hersey, John, 1914-

Life sketches / John Hersey.—1st Vintage Books ed.

p. cm.

Reprint. Originally published: New York: Knopf, 1989.

ISBN 0-679-73196-2

1. Biography—20th century. 2. United States—Biography.

I. Title.

[CT120.H435 1991]

920.073—dc20

[B]                      90-50193

CIP

Ebook ISBN 9780593081037

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