Hiroshima is a book by
Pulitzer Prize-winning author
John Hersey. It tells the stories of six survivors of the atomic bomb
dropped on Hiroshima, covering a period of time immediately prior to and one year after the
atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945. It was originally published in
The New Yorker. Although the story was originally scheduled to be published over four issues, the entire August 31, 1946 edition was dedicated to the article. The article and subsequent book are regarded as one of the earliest examples of the
New Journalism, in which the story-telling techniques of fiction are adapted to non-fiction reporting.