BIB_ID
443171
Accession number
MA 23788.5
Creator
Hersey, John, 1914-1993, sender.
Display Date
Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, 1991 August 27.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund for Twentieth-Century Literature, 2020.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 14.5 x 9 cm
Notes
Typed on letterhead with "John Hersey" printed center top in blue.
Part of a collection of letters from various individuals responding to an inquiry by an eighth-grade English teacher, John Stanger, about which books had been most influential in their lives (MA 23788). Letters have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Part of a collection of letters from various individuals responding to an inquiry by an eighth-grade English teacher, John Stanger, about which books had been most influential in their lives (MA 23788). Letters have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Purchased from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, 2020.
Summary
Hersey names the works of Tolstoy, Chekhov, Conrad, Melville, Hemingway and Faulkner as the books that had the greatest influence on his life.
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