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Cheever, John |
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Cheever, John (1912–1982)US writer. His stories and novels focus on the ironies of upper-middle-class life in suburban America. His short stories were frequently published in the New Yorker magazine. His first novel was The Wapshot Chronicle (1957), for which he won the National Book Award. Others include Falconer (1977). His Stories of John Cheever (1978) won a Pulitzer Prize.
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White), remembrances of the postwar non-fiction that shaped sensibilities and carried moral weight (John Hersey's ``Hiroshima,'' James Baldwin's notes for ``The Fire Next Time,'' Whitney Balliett's great jazz pieces, Hannah Arendt's ``Eichmann in Jerusalem,'' Rachel Carson's ``Silent Spring''), celebrations of fiction writers who illuminated whole decades (Irwin Shaw, John Cheever, John Updike, Donald Barthelme, Ann Beattie). Salinger, Truman Capote, John Cheever, John Updike and John McPhee. today announced the launch of a new line of audiobooks, "Audible Modern Vanguard," which will bring to unabridged audio landmark fiction and nonfiction works from the 20th century by leading literary innovators such as Saul Bellow, Kurt Vonnegut, John Cheever, John Irving and Paul Auster. |
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