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John William Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, the second child of Frederick Lincoln Cheever and Mary Liley Cheever. His father was a prosperous shoe salesman, and Cheever spent much of his childhood in a large Victorian house, at 123 Winthrop Avenue, [5] in the then-genteel suburb of Wollaston, Massachusetts.
Jun 14, 2024 · John Cheever, American writer whose work describes the life, manners, and morals of middle-class suburban America.
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 ...
John Cheever has 285 books on Goodreads with 148204 ratings. John Cheever’s most popular book is The Stories of John Cheever.
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 mos...
May 30, 2012 · You rarely feel in Cheever, as you do in his contemporary and fellow New Yorker fiction stalwart John O’Hara, that a raw hunger for admission into an idealized upper class distorts his ability...
John Cheever. , The Art of Fiction No. 62. Interviewed by Annette Grant. Issue 67, Fall 1976. PHOTOGRAPH BY NANCY CRAMPTON. The first meeting with John Cheever took place in the spring of 1969, just after his novel Bullet Park was published. Normally, Cheever leaves the country when a new book is released, but this time he had not, and as a ...
