Get From John Cheever: Collected Stories & Other Writings

While he was in the army, in 1943, his first book was published. It was a short story collection, The Way Some People Live. In 1951 Cheever moved with his wife, daughter, and son to Westchester County outside of New York City.

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 seventy, and in the years since an unusually full and frank wealth of biographical material has accumulated: a memoiristic biography, ...

Born in Quincy, Massachusetts, on May 27, 1912, John Cheever wrote for more than half a century while publishing over two hundred short stories. He's known for writing about the world of American suburbia.

John Cheever, (born May 27, 1912, Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.—died June 18, 1982, Ossining, New York), American short-story writer and novelist whose work describes, often through fantasy and ironic comedy, the life, manners, and morals of middle-class suburban America.

John CheeverYears active1935–1982Notable worksThe Enormous Radio The Five-Forty-Eight The Wapshot Chronicle The Swimmer The Wapshot Scandal Bullet Park Falconer Oh What a Paradise It SeemsNotable awardsPulitzer Prize (1979) National Book Critics Circle Award (1981)SpouseMary Winternitz ​ ( m. 1941)​8 more rows

John Cheever, (born May 27, 1912, Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.—died June 18, 1982, Ossining, New York), American short-story writer and novelist whose work describes, often through fantasy and ironic comedy, the life, manners, and morals of middle-class suburban America.

John Cheever, (born May 27, 1912, Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.—died June 18, 1982, Ossining, New York), American short-story writer and novelist whose work describes, often through fantasy and ironic comedy, the life, manners, and morals of middle-class suburban America.

As for John, he was a man I so esteemed as a colleague and so loved as a friend that his loss is indescribable. He was a prince. I think it not difficult to kiss him goodbye—I can think of no other way of parting from him, although he would, in my case, have been embarrassed.

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 seventy, and in the years since an unusually full and frank wealth of biographical material has accumulated: a memoiristic biography, ...