John Cheever
1912 - 1982
General Information
Bio
(1912-1982) Short story writer, novelist. John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts. He moved to New York City in early 1930s and befriended John Dos Passos, E. E Cummings, and James Agee. His stories were published in The New Republic, Colliers, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker, among other magazines. Cheever moved to Crotonville, New York, a suburb of Ossinning, in the 1950s and, over the next three decades, lived and wrote there between teaching stints at Barnard College, University of Iowa, and Boston University. Cheever also taught at Sing Sing in the early 1970s. Cheever won many awards in the course of his lifetime, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Book Award (for “The Wapshot Chronicle”), the Howells Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Books Critics Circle Award, and an American Book Award.
Full Name
John Cheever
Locations
Westchester
Author's Timeline
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RESIDENCE
1912
BIRTH
1935
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1943
LITWORK
Collection of short stories.
1950
OTHER
1953
LITWORK
Collection of short stories written in Cheever's Scarborough, New York home.
1957
LITWORK
Novel and winner of the National Book Award.
1958
LITWORK
Novel.
1961
LITWORK
Collection of short stories.
1964
LITWORK
Novel.
1964
LITWORK
Collection of short stories.
1969
LITWORK
Novel.
1973
LITWORK
Collection of short stories.
1977
LITWORK
Novel.
1978
LITWORK
Collection of short stories and Pulitzer Prize winner.
1982
DEATH
1982
LITWORK
Novella.
1982
INTERMENT
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