John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American author and short story essayist. He is now and again called "the Chekhov of suburbia".
His fiction is for the most part set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Westchester rural areas, old New England towns in light of different South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was conceived, and Italy, particularly Rome. He is "presently perceived as a standout amongst the most critical short fiction scholars of the twentieth century." While Cheever is maybe best associated with his short stories (counting "The Enormous Radio", "Farewell, My Brother", "The Five-Forty-Eight", "The Country Husband", and "The Swimmer"), he likewise composed four books, involving The Wapshot Chronicle (National Book Award, 1958), The Wapshot Scandal (William Dean Howells Medal, 1965), Bullet Park (1969), Falconer (1977) and a novella Oh What a Paradise It Seems (1982).
His fundamental subjects incorporate the duality of human instinct: now and again performed as the divergence between a character's proper social persona and inward defilement, and now and then as a contention between two characters (regularly siblings) who epitomize the remarkable parts of both – light and dull, fragile living creature and soul. A considerable lot of his works likewise express a sentimentality for a vanishing lifestyle (as evoked by the legendary St. Botolphs in the Wapshot books), portrayed by withstanding social conventions and a significant feeling of group, instead of the estranging nomadism of current the suburbs.
A gathering of his short stories, The Stories of John Cheever, won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and a National Book Critics Circle Award, and its first soft cover version won a 1981 National Book Award.
On April 27, 1982, a month and a half before his demise, Cheever was granted the National Medal for Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been incorporated into the Library of America.
His fiction is for the most part set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Westchester rural areas, old New England towns in light of different South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was conceived, and Italy, particularly Rome. He is "presently perceived as a standout amongst the most critical short fiction scholars of the twentieth century." While Cheever is maybe best associated with his short stories (counting "The Enormous Radio", "Farewell, My Brother", "The Five-Forty-Eight", "The Country Husband", and "The Swimmer"), he likewise composed four books, involving The Wapshot Chronicle (National Book Award, 1958), The Wapshot Scandal (William Dean Howells Medal, 1965), Bullet Park (1969), Falconer (1977) and a novella Oh What a Paradise It Seems (1982).
His fundamental subjects incorporate the duality of human instinct: now and again performed as the divergence between a character's proper social persona and inward defilement, and now and then as a contention between two characters (regularly siblings) who epitomize the remarkable parts of both – light and dull, fragile living creature and soul. A considerable lot of his works likewise express a sentimentality for a vanishing lifestyle (as evoked by the legendary St. Botolphs in the Wapshot books), portrayed by withstanding social conventions and a significant feeling of group, instead of the estranging nomadism of current the suburbs.
A gathering of his short stories, The Stories of John Cheever, won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and a National Book Critics Circle Award, and its first soft cover version won a 1981 National Book Award.
On April 27, 1982, a month and a half before his demise, Cheever was granted the National Medal for Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been incorporated into the Library of America.
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