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John Hersey

John Hersey has 5 books on the award lists tracked here, recognised between 1945 and 2020. Wins include the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for A Bell for Adano (1945) and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction for The Wall (1951).

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Award-Listed Books by John Hersey

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A Bell for Adano
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- WonPulitzer Prize for Fiction (1945)Major
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The Wall
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- WonAnisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction (1951)
- ShortlistedThe Orwell Prize for Political Fiction (2020)
- LonglistedThe Booker Prize (2019)Major
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A Single Pebble
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- ShortlistedNational Book Award for Fiction (1957)Major
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The Child Buyer
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- ShortlistedNational Book Award for Fiction (1961)Major
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The War Lover
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- ShortlistedNational Book Award for Fiction (1960)Major
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Nominated Alongside John Hersey

1John Updike120 score
2Saul Bellow68 score
3Wright Morris36 score
4Bernardine Evaristo23 score
5Lucy Ellmann19 score
6Louis Auchincloss16 score
7Elizabeth Spencer8 score
8Philip Roth146 score
9Colson Whitehead119 score
10Margaret Atwood97 score

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