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John Cheever

(1912–1982) Writer United States

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John Cheever writes about love’s touch changing bodies, making lovers feel like something better. He also describes the adult world as a worn piece of burlap patched with stupidities and mistakes. Finally, he sees literature as a way to rescue the damned and guide desperate hearts.

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John Cheever was a writer from the United States, best known for The Wapshot Chronicle.

Quick Facts About John Cheever

Born
May 27, 1912
Died
June 18, 1982
Nationality
United States
Profession
Writer
Notable works
The Wapshot Chronicle

About John Cheever

John William Cheever was an American short story writer and novelist. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". His fiction is mostly set on the Upper East Side of Manhattan; the Westchester suburbs; old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born; and Italy, especially Rome. His short stories included "The Enormous Radio", "Goodbye, My Brother", "The Five-Forty-Eight", "The Country Husband", and "The Swimmer", and he also wrote five novels: The Wapshot Chronicle , The Wapshot Scandal, Bullet Park (1969), Falconer (1977) and a novella, Oh What a Paradise It Seems (1982).

Awards & Honors

O. Henry Award Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Guggenheim Fellowship William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters National Book Award for Fiction National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

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