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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.
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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 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...
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- June 18, 1982
- May 27, 1912
- The Stories of John Cheever.
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Jun 12, 2021 · The Stories of John Cheever (1978), which won him the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize, is one of the high points of 20th-century American literature.
Jun 19, 1982 · John Cheever, whose poised, elegant prose established him as one of America's finest storytellers, died yesterday at his home in Ossining, N.Y.
