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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...
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 ...
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...
Aug 17, 2006 · The California-based novelist T.C. Boyle originally thought John Cheever's short stories were "antiquated," when he read them as a young writer. He soon realized how wrong he was, growing to...
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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.
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.
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