John Cheever

John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912, and saw his father, who made his living in the shoe trade, go bankrupt from the mid-twenties. Expelled from his private school at seventeen, he never went to university and published his first story about that expulsion. He gave the New Yorker more than a hundred and twenty stories and wrote five novels, often set in the affluent suburbs of New York, which earned him the nickname of the Chekhov of the suburbs. He received the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize and the National Medal for Literature, and died in Ossining in 1982.

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• NovelThe Wapshot ChronicleJohn Cheever · 1957Literature