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John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American short story writer and novelist. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". His fiction is mostly set in 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.
- 1935–1982
- Symbolism
- Short story, fiction
John Cheever, whose poised, elegant prose established him as one of America's finest storytellers, died yesterday at his home in Ossining, N.Y. He was 70 years old and had been afflicted with...
John Cheever. William John Cheever ( Quincy, 27 maggio 1912 – Ossining, 18 giugno 1982) è stato uno scrittore statunitense . È stato chiamato "il Čechov dei sobborghi". I suoi romanzi e racconti sono per massima parte ambientati nell' Upper East Side di Manhattan, i sobborghi della Contea di Westchester, i sei stati del New England (in ...
1 mar 2009 · Basically Decent. By John Updike. March 1, 2009. Cheever felt his own existence as a kind of mistake, a sin. Photograph by Nancy Crampton. On the one hand, Blake Bailey’s biography “Cheever: A ...
19 giu 1982 · By Martin Weil. June 18, 1982 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. John Cheever, 70, whose wry, witty, morally charged novels and short stories transcended the confines of their suburban subject matter to win...
Article History. John Cheever. Born: May 27, 1912, Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S. Died: June 18, 1982, Ossining, New York (aged 70) Awards And Honors: Pulitzer Prize. National Book Award (1958) Notable Works: “Falconer” “The Enormous Radio” “The Swimmer” “The Wapshot Chronicle”
18 giu 2021 · Cheever, just turned 70, died of a lung cancer that had spread throughout his body; the flags in Ossining were lowered to half mast. Barnes, having made it against all odds to 90, died of something like natural causes (nobody’s really double-checking at that age).
