Lindsley Cameron

Biography

Lindsley Cameron is the author of The Music of Light: The Extraordinary Story of Hikari and Kenzaburo Oe (Free Press, 1998) and the collection of stories The Prospect of Detachment (St. Martin’s, 1988). Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and Yale Review.

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ARTICLES / Fall 2005

Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the World Sixty Years Later

By Lindsley Cameron

On August 6, 1945, just before 8:15 A.M., Japan time, fourteen-year-old Akihiro Takahashi and his classmates at Hiroshima Municipal Junior High School were lining up in the schoolyard for morning assembly.