John Adair (author) John Adair (author) Professor John Eric Adair (born 18 May 1934) is a British academic who is a leadership theorist and author of more than forty books (translated into eighteen languages) on business, military and other leadership. Adair was born in Luton and educated at St Paul's School before undertaking his National Service as a second lieutenant in the Scots Guards from 1953 to 1955. Unusually, he served as adjutant of a Bedouin regiment in the Arab Legion and was briefly in command of the garrison of Jerusalem in the front line. He also studied at Hull Nautical College (where
John Hersey came with "The Child Buyer" (1960), a speculative-fiction novel. Hersey also wrote "The Algiers Motel Incident", about a racially motivated shooting by police during the 12th Street Riot in Detroit, Michigan, during 1968. Hersey's first novel "A Bell for Adano", about the Allied occupation of a Sicilian town during World War II, won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1945, and was adapted into the 1945 movie "A Bell for Adano" directed by Henry King, featuring John Hodiak and Gene Tierney. His 1956 short novel, "A Single Pebble" is the tale of a young American engineer traveling up the