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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 · Notable Works: “Falconer”. “The Enormous Radio”. “The Swimmer”. “The Wapshot Chronicle”. 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 ...
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 was an American novelist and short story writer, sometimes called the Chekhov of the suburbs or the Ovid of Ossining. His fiction is mos...
Mar 24, 2009 · Twenty-seven years after his death, the life and work of John Cheever are in the spotlight again. A new biography chronicles Cheever's chameleon-like evolution, and moves beyond his...
Mar 1, 2009 · Before John Updike and Richard Yates, there was John Cheever. Will a new biography and the reissue of his fiction find him a place on America’s night stands — and in the canon?
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...
