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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.
- 1935–1982
- Symbolism
- Short story, fiction
Oct 17, 2009 · John Cheever was born in 1912 in Quincy, Massachusetts, and right from childhood had delusions of grandeur; when his shoe salesman father fell on hard times and began drinking, and his mother, to ...
Feb 22, 2024 · 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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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Learn about John Cheever, a prominent American novelist and short story writer of the twentieth century. Explore his life, awards, publications, and themes of suburban alienation and spiritual crisis.
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