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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.

Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts. His collections of short stories include The Way Some People Live (1943), The Housebreaker of Shady Hill (1958), and The Brigadier and the Golf Widow (1964). Among his novels are Bullet Park (1969) and Oh What a Paradise It Seems (1982).



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