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John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American short story writer and novelist. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan; the Westchester suburbs; old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born; and Italy, especially Rome.
4 days ago · John Cheever (born May 27, 1912, Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.—died June 18, 1982, Ossining, New York) was an American short-story writer and novelist whose work describes, often through fantasy and ironic comedy, the life, manners, and morals of middle-class suburban America. Cheever has been called “the Chekhov of the suburbs” for his ...
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May 30, 2012 · Cheever’s Art of the Devastating Phrase. By Brad Leithauser. May 30, 2012. Had he lived, John Cheever would have turned a hundred this week. A lifelong admirer of his work, I find myself again ...
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Mar 24, 2009 · John Cheever, shown above in 1975, enjoyed a revival in the late 1970s when The Stories Of John Cheever won the Pulitzer Prize, The National Book Critics Circle Award and the American Book Award ...
Born on May 27, 1912, in Quincy, Massachusetts, John William Cheever was raised by Frederick Lincoln Cheever, a shoe salesman and Mary Liley Cheever, a gift shop owner. With the decline of shoe industry, his father lost his job which became a source of humiliation for his family as they had to face poverty.
Mar 1, 2009 · Basically Decent. By John Updike. March 1, 2009. Cheever felt his own existence as a kind of mistake, a sin. Photograph by Nancy Crampton. On the one hand, Blake Bailey’s biography “Cheever: A ...
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