John Hersey
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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 t
Hersey c. 1960
Hiroshima in ruins, October 1945, two months after the atomic bomb exploded
Portrait by Carl Van Vechten, 1958
Hersey (standing, second from right) among members and staff of the Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works, 1978
Charles Addams
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Charles Samuel Addams was an American cartoonist known for his darkly humorous and macabre characters. Some of his recurring characters became known as the Addams Family, and were popularized through
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…his home on Martha's Vineyard. He was survived by his second wife, Barbara Jean Day (the former wife of Hersey's colleague at The New Yorker, artist Charles Addams), Hersey's five children, one of whom is the composer and musician Baird Hersey, and six grandchildren. Barbara Hersey died on Martha's Vineyard 14…
Addams in 1947
Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall, University of Pennsylvania
Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall Gate showing Thing from The Addams Family
Dear Dead Days, with the Addams Family on the cover