John Hersey Quotes
Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.
Citations
Hersey, John. The Child Buyer. Alfred A. Knopf, 1960, p. 129.
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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. Hersey's account of the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, was adjudged the finest piece of American journalism of the 20th century by a 36-member panel associated with New York University's journalism department.