That kind of reform "requires highly skilled leaders who are paid well," Hersey said.
John Hersey spends a summer with Sinclair Lewis.
"It seemed to me that once you got beyond the opening anecdote in which he (Hersey) described his meeting with Agee that the whole article was a condensation of my biography," Bergreen told the newspaper.
Percy said his job was writing books, not selling them." Some writers still feel that way, including John Hersey and Anne Tyler, but the number is dwindling.
In an interview from his Key West, Fla., home, Hersey saw no parallel between the United States' atomic bomb attack on that Japanese city and its internment of Japanese-American citizens at home.