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e827037 In a Sunday Times piece entitled "Courage Knows No Gender," she quoted Martha Gellhorn, who said, "Feminists nark me. I think they've done a terrible disservice to women, branding us as 'women's writers.' Nobody says men writers; before, we were all simply writers." Lindsey Hilsum
09bc6a4 Hersey, however, was no fan of the fashionable "New Journalism" practiced by writers such as Norman Mailer and Tom Wolfe. The concept of the nonfiction novel, a term coined by Truman Capote to describe In Cold Blood, his best-selling 1966 book about a murder in Kansas, was, in Hersey's view, dangerous. Making things up, as novelists do, would undermine the reader's belief in journalism, which had to remain pure." Lindsey Hilsum