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Mar 24, 2009 · Twenty-seven years after his death, the life and work of writer John Cheever are once again in the spotlight. The award-winning author is the subject of a thick new biography — Cheever: A...
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...
Jun 19, 1982 · John Cheever, whose poised, elegant prose established him as one of America's finest storytellers, died yesterday at his home in Ossining, N.Y. He was 70 years old and had been afflicted with...
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May 11, 2018 · John Cheever >John Cheever (1912-1982) was an American writer known for his keen, often >critical, view of the American middle class. Known primarily for his short >stories, his attention to detail and careful writing found the extraordinary >in the ordinary.
John Cheever was an American novelist and short story writer, sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs" or "the Ovid of Ossining." His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the suburbs of Westchester, New York, and old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born.
Mar 1, 2009 · John Cheever, the author of five novels and of many—a hundred and twenty-one—of the most brilliant and memorable short stories this magazine has ever printed, died in 1982, at the age of ...
Share:TwitterFacebookEmail. Winning Work. Many of the stories collected in this volume (including "The Swimmer," Cheever's most anthologized opus) were initially published by The New Yorker, which routinely showcased Cheever's work from 1947 to 1964. Selections may be accessed below via the magazine's online archive.
