Biography
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 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. He is "now recognized as one of the most important short fiction writers of the 20th century." While Cheever is perhaps best ed for his short stories (including "The Enormous Radio", "Goodbye, My Brother", "The Five-Forty-Eight", "The Country Husband", and "The Swimmer"), he also wrote four novels, comprising The Wapshot Chronicle (National Book Award, 1958), The Wapshot Scandal (William Dean Howells Medal, 1965), Bullet Park (1969), Falconer (1977) and a novella Oh What a Paradise It Seems (1982).
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Filmography
all 9
Movies 7
Writer 6
TV Shows 2
Parc (2009)
Kinder (1981)
The Swimmer (1968)
Robert Montgomery Presents (1950)
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Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1912-05-27
Deathday
1982-06-18 (70 years old)
Birth Name
John William Cheever
Birth Place
Quincy, United States
Children
Susan Cheever, Benjamin Cheever
Citizenships
United States
Also Known As
John William Cheever
Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, O. Henry Award, National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, National Book Award for Fiction, William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
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