# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-cheever
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:30:37.277Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-cheever"
name: "John Cheever"
slug: "john-cheever"
description: "John William Cheever 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 ,\nThe Wapshot Scandal, Bullet Park (1969), Falconer (1977) and a novella, Oh What a Paradise It Seems (1982)."
tagline: "American novelist and short story writer (1912-1982)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Johncheever.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1912-05-27"
deathDate: "1982-06-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.09
  momentum:             0.5102040816326532
  historical:           23.540364
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0154940/"
    handle:    "nm0154940"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump