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Cheever (May 27, 1912–June 18, 1982) was an American novelist and
short story writer, sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs."
His The Stories of John Cheever won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
in 1979.[edit] LifeCheever was born inQuincy,Massachusetts. His
father owned a shoe factory and was relatively wealthy until he
lost his business in the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and deserted his
family. During this time in his life, the young John Cheever was
often comforted by his older brother Fred. It is said that many of
his later works are dedicated to this integral influence in his
life. The young Cheever was deeply upset by the breakdown of his
parents' relationship. His formal education ended when he was
seventeen and left home. Cheever studied at that time
atThayerAcademy, but was expelled for smoking. The experience was
the nucleus of his first published story, 'Expelled' (1930), which
Malcolm Cowley bought for The New Republic. Cheever went to live
with his brother inBoston. He wrote synopses for MGM and sold
stories to various magazines. After a journey in Europe, Cheever
returned to theU.S.He settled inNew York Cityand became friends
with such writers as John Dos Passos, E. E. Cummings, James Agee,
and James Farrell. In 1933 he attended the Yaddo writers' colony
inSaratoga Springs.Cheever died in 1982, at the age of 70,
inOssining,New York. He wrestled with alcoholism all of his adult
life. In 1987, his widow, Mary, signed a contract with a small
publisher, Academy Chicago, for the right to publish Cheever's
uncollected short stories. The contract led to a long legal battle,
and a book of 13 stories by the author, published in 1994. Two of
Cheever's children, Susan Cheever and Benjamin Cheever, became
novelists. Susan Cheever's memoir, Home before Dark, revealed
Cheever's bisexuality, which was confirmed by his posthumously
published letters and journals . Cheever claimed in his diaries to
have been diagnosed with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) by
a marriage counselor that his wife forced him to see.[edit]
CareerHis most significant works include the Wapshot books (The
Wapshot Chronicle won the National Book Award in 1958), and the
collection The Stories of John Cheever (which won the Pulitzer
Prize). He was a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, and was
considered one of the purest examples of "the New Yorker writer."
Cheever's main theme was the spiritual and emotional emptiness of
life. He especially described the manners and morals of
middle-class, suburbanAmerica, with an ironic humor which softened
his basically dark vision. A number of Cheever's early works were
published in The New Republic, Collier's Weekly, and The Atlantic.
In 1935 he began a lifelong association with The New Yorker. He
married Mary Winternitz in 1941, and two years later, published his
first book, The Way Some People Live. Its stories had originally
appeared in magazines and depicted the life ofUpper East Sideand
suburban residents or dealt with Cheever's own experiences as a
recruit. He had served during World War II as an infantry gunner
and member of the Signal Corps.After the war he worked as a teacher
and wrote scripts for television. In 1951, Cheever received a
Guggenheim Fellowship, which allowed him to become a full-time
writer. His second collection, The Enormous Radio And Other
Stories, was published in 1953. In the mid-1950s Cheever began
writing novels. The Wapshot Chronicle (1957) was an
autobiographical story based on his mother's and father's
relationship, his family's genteel decline, and his own life. The
book won the National Book Award in 1958. In the 1960s Cheever
worked briefly as aHollywoodscripwriter on a film version of D.H.
Lawrence's The Lost Girl, published in 1920. From 1956 to 1957,
Cheever taught writing atBarnardCollege- a job he never liked much.
However, he was teacher at theUniversityofIowaand at Sing Sing
prison in the early 1970s, and Visiting Professor of Creative
Writing atBostonUniversity(1974-75). The Stories Of John Cheever
(1978) won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the National Book
Critics Circle Award, and an American Book Award.[edit]
TriviaCheever's bisexuality was referenced in an episode of the
television sitcom Seinfeld, "The Cheever Letters", in which
correspondence from Cheever is discovered, revealing Cheever had an
affair with the fictional character of Susan Ross' father. However,
the character George Costanza incorrectly names the title of
Cheever's short prison novel Falconer (the name of the prison) as
The Falconer.[edit] BibliographyThe Way Some People Live: A Book of
Short Stories (1943)The Enormous Radio and Other Stories (1953)The
Day the Pig Fell Into the Well (
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