Cheever, John
Cheever, John( 1912–1982),Massachusetts author whose formal schooling ended and literary career began with expulsion from Thayer Academy, the subject of his first story, published in 1930. His many stories since then, frequently dealing satirically with affluent New Englanders living in suburbia, have often appeared in The New Yorker and have been collected in The Way Some People Live (1943), The Housebreaker of Shady Hill (1958), Some People, Places and Things That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel (1961), The Brigadier and the Golf Widow (1964), and The World of Apples (1973). The Wapshot Chronicle (1957), an episodic novel about the comically raffish lives of a wealthy Massachusetts family during the first half of the 20th century, was given a National Book Award. Its sequel, The Wapshot Scandal (1964), continues the tale of the family decline in their hometown, St. Botolph. His third novel,...
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