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| Name: |
John Cheever | | Birth Date: |
May 27, 1912 | | Death Date: |
June 18, 1982 | | Place of Birth: |
Quincy, Massachusetts, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer, author |
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 Biography of John Cheever
1,068 words, approx. 4 pages
 John Cheever (1912-1982) was an American writer known for his keen, often critical, view of the American middle class. Known primarily for his short stories, his attention to detail and careful writing found the extraordinary in the ordinary. I have... summary from source:
 Biography of John Cheever
10,311 words, approx. 34 pages
 Few American writers have been so clear in mapping their recurrent subject matter and themes as John Cheever. From his first published story, "Expelled," he has been concerned with the Fall from a condition of Edenic childlike innocence into the... summary from source:
Biography of John Cheever
9,669 words, approx. 32 pages
To outward appearances John Cheever was very much a child of the American twentieth century. Born just before World War I, he lived through the halcyon Jazz Age, suffered through the Depression, and served as a noncombatant in the army during World War...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 John Cheever Information
2,640 words, approx. 9 pages
John Cheever Johncheever.jpg}} | Born May 27 , 1912 Quincy, Massachusetts Died June 18 , 1982 Ossining, New York Occupation short story writer, novelist Nationality United States Debut works The Way Some People Live Influences Anton Chekhov , F. Scott...
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 greatreporter.com Wasserstein, Wendy
12/31/2006: 284 words, approx. 1 pagesAmerican playwright (b. Oct. 18, 1950, Brooklyn, N.Y. —d. Jan. 30, 2006, New York, N.Y. ), probed, with humour and sensibility, the predicament facing educated women who came of age in the second half of the 20th century. Her drama Wasserstein was educated at Mount... summary from source:
The New York Observer Oh Norman, My Norman
11/13/2007: 451 words, approx. 2 pagesWho was Mailer? He growled, boxed, inhabited the Earth. Breslin: 'People think he was a crazed creature—he wasn't.' MORE ... The subject was old age. Norman Mailer said there was a grace in aging. He didn’t feel as angry or self-involved as he once did;...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Scott Donaldson
8,007 words, approx. 27 pages
In the following essay, Donaldson examines how Cheever exploits the contrast between the turmoil of his characters' inner lives and the seeming tranquility of their outer lives in The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories.
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Thomas B. Gilmore
7,825 words, approx. 26 pages
In the following essay Gilmore describes John Cheever's portrayal of alcoholism in his short fiction, both for comic effect and as a social critique of the upper-middle class.
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Critical Essay by Burton Kendle
5,808 words, approx. 19 pages
In the following essay, Kendle maintains that Cheever's stories are unified by a “passionate attempt to retain and foster an image” of an Eden-like past manifested in places, patterns of behavior, or inner innocence.
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