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John Cheever

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American novelist and short story writer (1912-1982)

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John William Cheever was an American short story writer and novelist. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs".

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1981National Book Award for Fiction
1979Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
1978National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
1965William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
1958National Book Award for Fiction
1956O. Henry Award
1951Guggenheim Fellowship

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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 , The Wapshot Scandal, Bullet Park (1969), Falconer (1977) and a novella, Oh What a Paradise It Seems (1982).

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deceased
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Lived 1912 to 1982 · aged 70
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