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Hersey, John Richard 
Hersey, John Richard (1914-1993), American author and journalist, noted 
for his ability to portray on an individual level the tragedies of war. Born in 
Tianjin (Tientsin), China, Hersey was educated at Yale University and Clare 
College of the University of Cambridge. During World War II (1939-1945) 
Hersey served as a 
Time
magazine war correspondent in the Pacific and 
Europe. He later was a senior editor of 
Life
magazine. Hersey wrote 
Men on 
Bataan
(1942) and 
Into the Valley
(1943), vivid accounts of the war in the 
Pacific, and 
A Bell for Adano
(1944; Pulitzer Prize, 1945), a novel about the 
Allied occupation of Italy. 
Hiroshima
(1946) is a graphic report on the 
atomic bombing of that Japanese city; a new edition with an additional 
chapter written 40 years after the explosion was published in 1985. 
The 
Wall
(1950) is a novel about the Nazi destruction of the Warsaw, Poland, 
ghetto in 1943 (
see 
Holocaust), and 
The Algiers Motel Incident
(1968) is a 
nonfiction treatment of the riots in Detroit, Michigan, in 1967. Hersey's 
other works include the novels 
The Child Buyer
(1960), 
The Walnut Door
(1977), and 
Blues
(1987). 
The Call
(1985) is a semiautobiographical story 
of an American missionary in China. 
 

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Rice, Anne 
American writer Anne Rice gained recognition for her books about aspects 
of the supernatural. Her best-known novels, involving a vampire named 
Lestat, form a series called the Vampire Chronicles. 
Rice, Anne (1941- ), American writer, known for her best-selling novels 
about the supernatural. Rice was born Howard Allen O'Brien in New 
Orleans, Louisiana, but in her youth she changed her first name to Anne. 
She married Stan Rice in 1961 and was educated at Texas Woman's 
University, San Francisco State College, and the University of California at 
Berkeley. 
In Rice's first novel, 
Interview with the Vampire
(1976; motion picture, 
1994), a vampire tells his life story to a boy, thereby introducing the reader 
to vampire history and culture. The book begins a saga of vampires that 
continues in several other books, which together constitute the Vampire 
Chronicles, a series noted for its sympathetic portrayal of vampires as 
romantic individuals who live outside mainstream society. The other 
Vampire Chronicles books include 
The Vampire Lestat
(1985), 
The Queen 
of the Damned
(1988), 
The Tale of the Body Thief
(1992), 
Memnoch the 
Devil
(1995), and 
The Vampire Armand 
(1998). These novels are told from 
the point of view of vampires rather than that of victims. Through 
graphically described scenes, Rice's supernatural characters search for their 
own identities in a vampire subculture in which death and sexuality are 
often intertwined. The Vampire Chronicles books also draw on such themes 
as homoeroticism, atheism, immortality, and the essential nature of good 
and evil. Rice began a second series of vampire stories in 1998. This second 
series included 
Pandora: New Tales of the Vampires 
(1999)
 
and 
Vittorio the 
Vampire
(1999)
.
Rice's books have also been published under two pseudonyms. Under the 
name Anne Rampling she wrote the mainstream romance novels 
Exit to 
Eden
(1985) and 
Belinda
(1986). She used the name A. N. Roquelaure for 
three books of erotica: 
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
(1983), 
Beauty's 
Punishment
(1984), and 
Beauty's Release
(1985). Rice's other books 
published under her own name include the historical novels 
The Feast of All 
Saints
(1979) and 
Cry to Heaven
(1982), as well as 
The Mummy, Or Ramses 
the Damned
(1989), 
The Witching Hour
(1990), 
Lasher
(1993), 
Taltos: 
Lives of the Mayfair Witches
(1994), and 
Violin
(1997), all of which deal 
with aspects of the supernatural. 

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