Author
John Cheever
May 27 1912 – June 18 1982
**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 on 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). 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.
Bibliography
Books
30 books
Fifty Best American Short Stories
1965
Martha Foley, Elsie Singmaster, Theodore Dreiser, Ring Lardner, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, William March, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Wilbur Daniel Steele, William Saroyan, Thomas Wolfe, Tess Slesinger, Thomas Wolfe, Pietro Di Donato, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, William Faulkner, Robert M. Coates, Kay Boyle, Irwin Shaw, Nancy Hale, Paul Horgan, Jesse Stuart, James Thurber, Lionel Trilling, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, John Cheever, Jean Stafford, George P. Elliott, Hortense Calisher, Ray Bradbury, Tennessee Williams, James Agee, Bernard Malamud, James Agee, Augusta Wallace Lyons, Philip Roth, Shirley Jackson, Frank Butler, Lawrence Sargent Hall, James Baldwin, Tillie Olsen, George P. Garrett, John Updike, H. W. Blattner, John Stewart Carter, William Eastlake, Joyce Carol Oates, M. (Ed.) Foley, Martha (Editor) Foley
Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow
1952
Ray Bradbury, Robert M. Coates, Henry Kuttner, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Sidney B. Carroll, Ludwig Bemelmans, Shirley Jackson, Christine (Noble) Govan, Helen Eustis, Nigel Kneale, John Keir Cross, John Steinbeck, Josephine Johnson, John B. L. Goodwin, Wessel Hyatt Smitter, Roald Dahl, J C Furnas, Christopher Isherwood, William Sansom, John Cheever, Hortense Calisher, E. B. White, Jean Hrolda, Franz Kafka, Russell Maloney
Understanding fiction -- Second Edition
1959
Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn Warren, Francis Parkman, Christopher Sykes, Mark Twain, Peter Quennell, Hanson Weightman Baldwin, Rudyard Kipling, James Thurber, Shirley Jackson, Irwin Shaw, O. Henry, John Collier, Guy de Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, Eudora Welty, Ray Bradbury, Ring Lardner, Isaac Babel, Luigi Pirandello, Stephen Crane, Bret Harte, James Joyce, Frank O'Connor, Антон Павлович Чехов, D. H. Lawrence, James Purdy - undifferentiated, Caroline Gordon, Mary Mc Carthy, Carson McCullers, Honoré de Balzac, Jesse Stuart, Ernest Hemingway, Katherine Mansfield, Sherwood Anderson, Albert Camus, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Franz Kafka, William Sansom, Colette, Saul Bellow, Dylan Thomas, Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote, Angus Wilson, Isak Dinesen, Joseph Conrad, Dino Buzzati, Marcel Aymé, Thomas Mann, John Cheever, Katherine Anne Porter
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Great American Short Stories [34 stories]
1977
Reader's Digest Association, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mark Twain, Jack London, Susan Glaspell, Jesse Stuart, John O'Hara, O. Henry, Ring Lardner, Ernest Hemingway, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, John Steinbeck, Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Wright, William Faulkner, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Eudora Welty, Ray Bradbury, Damon Runyon, Marc Connelly, Edith Wharton, Bret Harte, Shirley Ann Grau, Heywood Broun, Henry James, Shirley Jackson, Stephen Crane, John Updike, Pearl S. Buck, Stephen Vincent Benét, Kay Boyle, Herman Melville, John Cheever, Ambrose Bierce, Readers Digest Editors, Richard Connell
Stories from the New Yorker, 1950-1960
1960
Frank O'Connor, Vladimir Nabokov, Daniel Fuchs, V. S. Pritchett, J. D. Salinger, Mavis Gallant, Calvin Kentfield, Natacha Stewart, Robert Henderson, John Updike, William Maxwell, Richard T. Gill, Peter Hillsman Taylor, Harold Brodkey, J. F. Powers, Mary Lavin, Philip Roth, Elizabeth Bishop, Saul Bellow, Tennessee Williams, Julia Strachey, Mary McCarthy, Richard Wilbur, Edith Templeton, Elizabeth Spencer, Oliver La Farge, Roger Angell, Benedict Kiely, Roald Dahl, Niccolò Tucci, Penelope Mortimer, Dorothy Parker, Elizabeth Taylor, Walter Stone, Arturo Vivante, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Jean Stafford, Maeve Brennan, Nancy Hale, Angus Wilson, Robert M. Coates, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Nadine Gordimer, Eudora Welty, Elizabeth Hardwick, McKelway, St. Clair, John Cheever
Short Stories from the New Yorker
1940
Irwin Shaw, John O'Hara, James Thurber, Robert M. Coates, E. B. White, Russell Maloney, Kay Boyle, Sherwood Anderson, Leonard Q. Ross, Oliver La Farge, Erskine Caldwell, Nancy Hale, Benedict Thielen, Wolcott Gibbs, William Maxwell, Tom Wolfe, Nathan Asch, Louise Bogan, Janet Flanner, McKelway, St. Clair, Leane Zugsmith, John Collier, Walter Bernstein, Morley Callaghan, Jerome Weidman, Thyra Samter Winslow, Christopher La Farge, Joel Sayre, Sally Benson, Edwin Corle, Emily Hahn, William A. Krauss, John Mosher, Angelica Gibbs, Joseph Mitchell, James Reid Parker, Mollie Panter-Downes, Brendan Gill, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Albert Maltz, Dawn Powell, Mark Schorer, Paul Horgan, Christopher Isherwood, Arthur Kober, George Milburn, Marc Connelly, Donald Moffitt, R. H. Newman, John Cheever, Richard Lockridge, Daniel Fuchs, Tess Slesinger, Dorothy Thomas
The Situation of the Story
1993
Diana Young, Flannery O'Connor, Ann Beattie, Mark Twain, Eudora Welty, William Goyen, Stephen Crane, William Faulkner, Conrad Aiken, Elizabeth Spencer, Truman Capote, John Updike, Alice Munro, Lee K. Abbott, Ernest Hemingway, Ellen Wilbur, Joyce Carol Oates, Bharati Mukherjee, Amy Tan, Louise Erdrich, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Toni Cade Bambara, Антон Павлович Чехов, D. H. Lawrence, Henry James, Willa Cather, Virginia Woolf, Zora Neale Hurston, James Joyce, Doris Lessing, Tillie Olsen, Raymond Carver, Gloria Naylor, Shirley Jackson, REGINALD McKNlGHT, Maria Cruz Viramontes de Marin, John Edgar Wideman, Anna Lee Walters, George P. Garrett, Charles Johnson, Estela Portillo Trambley, Edgar Allan Poe, Katherine Anne Porter, Allen Barnett, Bernard Malamud, Edith Wharton, Sarah Orne Jewett, Franz Kafka, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, John Cheever
The Best American Short Stories 1973
1973
Martha Foley, Donald Barthelme, Henry Bromell, John Cheever, John J. Clayton, John William Corrington, Guy Davenport, William Eastlake, Alan Greenberg, Julie Hayden, George V. Higgins, Ward Just, James S. Kenary, Wallace E. Knight, Konstantinos Lardas, Bernard Malamud, James Alan McPherson, Joyce Carol Oates, Sylvia Plath, Erik Sandberg-Diment, David Shetzline, Tennessee Williams
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The Britannica Library of Great American Writing - Volume II
1960
Louis Untermeyer, Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, Henry Adams, John Hay, Edward Rowland Sill, Sidney Lanier, Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, Sarah Orne Jewett, James Whitcomb Riley, Lafcadio Hearn, Edwin Markham, O. Henry, Finlay Peter Dunne, William Allen White, Booth Tarkington, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Theodore Dreiser, Stephen Crane, James Weldon Johnson, Willa Cather, Clarence Day, Jack London, Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, H. L. Mencken, Sara Teasdale, Damon Runyon, Ring Lardner, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, Elinor Wylie, Van Wyck Brooks, John Hall Wheelock, Marianne Moore, Robinson Jeffers, T. S. Eliot, Eugene O'Neill, John Crowe Ransom, Conrad Aiken, Robert Benchley, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Archibald MacLeish, Dorothy Parker, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, James Thurber, Donald Ogden Stewart, Katherine Anne Porter, E. E. Cummings, Edmund Wilson, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Stephen Vincent Benét, E. B. White, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, Ogden Nash, Wolcott Gibbs, John Steinbeck, Erskine Caldwell, S. J. Perelman, William Saroyan, Leo Calvin Rosten, Eudora Welty, John Cheever, Irwin Shaw, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Louise Bogan, Leonie Adams, Hart Crane, Stanley Kunitz, Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop, Karl Jay Shapiro, Muriel Rukeyser, Robert Lowell, Richard Wilbur
The Best American Short Stories 1963
1963
U. S. Anderson, H. W. Blattner, John Stewart Carter, John Cheever, Cecil Dawkins, George Dickerson, May Dikeman, Stanley Elkin, William J. J. Gordon, John Hermann, Katinka Loeser, McKelway, St. Clair, Ursule Molinaro, J. C. Oates, R. C. Phelan, Mordecai Richler, William Saroyan, Babette Sassoon, Irwin Shaw, Peter Taylor, Niccolo Tucci, Jessamyn West
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