John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912. He is the author of seven collections of stories and five novels. His first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle, won the 1958 National Book Award. In 1965 he received the Howells Medal for Fiction from the National Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 1978 The Stories of John Cheever won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Shortly before his death in 1982, he was awarded the National Medal for Literature from the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
"John Cheever is an enchanted realist, and his voice, in his
luminous short stories and in incomparable novels like Bullet Park
and Falconer, is as rich and distinctive as any of the leading
voices of postwar American literature." —Philip Roth
"This is perfect Cheever—it is perfect." —The New York Times Book
Review
"A luminous epiphany of life.... A charming fable of old age,
nostalgia, and loss...engaging and complex ... vivid and alive."
—The Washington Post Book World
"Beautiful ... graceful ... winning ... both upbeat and true to
life.... Oh, what a literary paradise is John Cheever!" —San
Francisco Chronicle
"Filled with the master's wonderful word magic.... There simply
isn't another writer like him ... a delight." —Chicago Tribune
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