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John Cheever’s father, a successful shoe salesman, and his mother, born in Sheffield, England, provided for his education at Thayer Academy. Cheever was eventually expelled. This dismissal led to his story “Expelled,” which was published in The New Republic in October, 1930. In New York in 1932, Cheever worked with Malcolm Cowley and for The New Yorker, a magazine which published 120 of Cheever’s stories.
In 1951, Cheever moved to Scarborough, a community about twenty-five miles north of New York City. In this environment,...
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