John Cheever, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

John Cheever

American novelist and short story writer

Date of Birth: 27-May-1912

Place of Birth: Quincy, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 18-Jun-1982

Profession: screenwriter, writer, novelist, diarist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About John Cheever

  • John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American novelist and short story writer.
  • 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 four novels, comprising 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.

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