

The Wall
Author: John Hersey
Narrator: Mark Bramhall
Unabridged: 29 hr 14 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 10/15/2019
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Jewish Fiction
Author: John Hersey
Narrator: Mark Bramhall
Unabridged: 29 hr 14 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 10/15/2019
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Jewish Fiction
John Hersey was born in Tientsin, China, in 1914 and lived there until 1925, when his family returned to the United States. He studied at Yale and Cambridge, served for a time as Sinclair Lewis’s secretary, and then worked several years as a journalist. Beginning in 1947, he devoted his time mainly to writing fiction. He won the Pulitzer Prize, taught for two decades at Yale, and was president of the Authors League of America and chancellor of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Hersey died in 1993.Mark Bramhall has performed off-Broadway, at venues nationwide, and extensively in film and television. He holds numerous honors for his narrations and has repeatedly been featured among AudioFile Magazine’s best readers of the year.
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