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John Cheever (1912–1982) was an American author whose literary output included 172 works. Among his notable publications are *The Best American Short Stories 1973*, *Short Stories from the New Yorker*, *The brigadier and the golf widow*, *The Britannica Library of Great American Writing - Volume II*, and *Selected American Short Stories (II)*. His writings have been recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection and the Pulitzer Prize collection.
Cheever’s perspectives on writing and life are preserved in various quotes, including the statement that "Art is the triumph over chaos" and the observation that "Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time." He also noted that "The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one’s life and discover one’s usefulness."
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- May 27 1912
- Died
- June 18 1982
- Works
- 172
Top works
- The Best American Short Stories 1973
- Short Stories from the New Yorker
- The brigadier and the golf widow
- The Britannica Library of Great American Writing - Volume II
- Selected American Short Stories (II)
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 107
- Total plays
- 1,409
John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American novelist and short story writer. 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. He is "now recognized as one of the most important short fiction writers of the 20th century. <a href="https://www.last.fm/musi
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,463x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,586x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,896x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 35,562x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 29,125x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man’s complexity and the strength and decency of his longings. Where we can describe, step by step, minute by minute, our not altogether unpleasant struggle to put ourselves into a viable and devout relationship to our beloved and mistaken world.”
- “He was a tall man with an astonishing and somehow elegant curvature of the spine, formed by an enlarged lower abdomen, which he carried in a stately and contented way, as if it contained money and securities.”
- “Homesickness is nothing … Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.”
- “Art is the triumph over chaos.”
- “I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”
- “The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one’s life and discover one’s usefulness.”
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Key facts
- Born
- John William Cheever , ( 1912-05-27 ) May 27, 1912, Quincy, Massachusetts , U.S.
- Died
- June 18, 1982 (1982-06-18) (aged 70), Ossining, New York , U.S.
- Occupation
- Writer novelist
- Period
- 20th century
- Genre
- Short story , fiction
- Literary movement
- Symbolism
- Years active
- 1935–1982
- Notable works
- " The Enormous Radio " " The Five-Forty-Eight " The Wapshot Chronicle " The Swimmer " The Wapshot Scandal Bullet Park Falconer Oh What a Paradise It Seems
- Notable awards
- Pulitzer Prize (1979), National Book Critics Circle Award (1981)
- Spouse
- Mary Winternitz ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1941 )
- Children
- Susan Benjamin Federico
via Wikipedia infobox