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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.
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Oct 17, 2009 · John Cheever, brilliant chronicler of American suburbia led a tortured double life filled with sexual guilt, alcoholism and self-loathing. On the eve of a major new biography, Rachel Cooke...
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".
- 1935–1982
- Symbolism
- Short story, fiction
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American writer and author. American writer John Cheever is best known for his keen, often critical, view of the American middle class. His stories are characterized by his attention to detail, his careful writing, and his ability to find the extraordinary in the ordinary. Childhood and marriage.
He is often referred to as “the Chekhov of the suburbs” for his focus on suburbs. Majority of his work foregrounds the suburbs of Manhattan, Massachusetts, New England and Italy. 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 ...
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 11, 2018 · John Cheever. Personal. Born May 27, 1912, in Quincy, MA; died of cancer, June 18, 1982, in Ossining, NY; son of Frederick (a shoe salesman and manufacturer) and Mary (a gift shop owner; maiden name, Liley) Cheever; married Mary M. Winternitz (a poet and teacher), March 22, 1941; children: Susan, Benjamin Hale, Frederico.