Writers Associated with Key West, Florida: #5 John Hersey

719 Windsor Lane, Key West.

THE WRITERS COMPOUND

FOUNDING RESIDENTS

John Ciardi 1976 – 1986

Ralph Ellison 1976 – 1993

John Hersey 1976 – 1993

Richard Wilbur 1976 – 2007

'FRIEND OF LIBRARIES U.S.A.

LITERARY LANDMARKS REGISTER

JOHN HERSEY

1914 – 1993

Reporting death, he did not

proclaim it.

To life – for all its heresy –

he was open and loving.'