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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.
John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American novelist and short story writer. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East ...
Rebellious Yankee son of a father who fell victim to the Depression and a doo-gooder-turned-businesswoman mother, father to three competitive children he rode mercilessly but adored, chronicler par ...
John Cheever in front a Metro North Railroad car not unlike that many of his characters rode to work. (Wikimedia Commons) Upon his death in 1982, Cheever was called “the Chekhov of the suburbs” for ...
On Home Before Dark : A Personal Memoir of John Cheever by His Daughter, by Susan Cheever. But I was also angered by the piece. There was, first of all, the question of propriety. I am aware of how ...