John Cheever

John Cheever 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. His short stories included "The Enormous Radio", "Goodbye, My Brother", "The Five-Forty-Eight", "The Country Husband", and "The Swimmer", and he also wrote five novels: ''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).

His main themes include the duality of human nature: sometimes dramatized as the disparity between a character's decorous social persona and inner corruption, and sometimes as a conflict between two characters (often brothers) who embody the salient aspects of both—light and dark, flesh and spirit. Many of his works also express a nostalgia for a vanishing way of life (as evoked by the mythical St. Botolphs in the ''Wapshot'' novels), characterized by abiding cultural traditions and a profound sense of community, as opposed to the alienating nomadism of modern suburbia.

A compilation of his short stories, ''The Stories of John Cheever'', won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and a National Book Critics Circle Award, and its first paperback edition won a 1981 National Book Award.

On April 27, 1982, six weeks before his death, Cheever was awarded the National Medal for Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been included in the Library of America. Provided by Wikipedia
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    The Wapshot scandal. by Cheever, John

    Published 1964
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    Some people, places, and things that will not appear in my next novel. by Cheever, John

    Published 1961
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    The housebreaker of Shady Hill, and other stories. by Cheever, John

    Published 1958
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    The Wapshot chronicle. by Cheever, John

    Published 1957
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    The enormous radio, and other stories. by Cheever, John

    Published 1953
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    The brigadier and the golf widow. by Cheever, John

    Published 1964
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    The world of apples. by Cheever, John

    Published 1973
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    Thirteen uncollected stories / by Cheever, John

    Published 1994
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    The stories of John Cheever. by Cheever, John

    Published 1978
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    Oh, what a paradise it seems / by Cheever, John

    Published 1982
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    Vintage Cheever / by Cheever, John

    Published 2005
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    The letters of John Cheever / by Cheever, John

    Published 1988
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    Conversations with John Cheever / by Cheever, John

    Published 1987
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    Thirteen uncollected stories by John Cheever / by Cheever, John

    Published 1994
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    A vision of the world : selected stories / by Cheever, John

    Published 2021
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    The way some people live / by Cheever, John

    Published 1943
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    Collected stories and other writings / by Cheever, John

    Published 2009
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    Complete novels / by Cheever, John

    Published 2009
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    Bullet Park : a novel. by Cheever, John

    Published 1969
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    The journals of John Cheever. by Cheever, John

    Published 1991
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