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John Cheever (1912–1982) was an American author whose literary output included 172 works. Among his notable publications are *The Best American Short Stories 1973*, *Short Stories from the New Yorker*, *The brigadier and the golf widow*, *The Britannica Library of Great American Writing - Volume II*, and *Selected American Short Stories (II)*. His writings have been recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection and the Pulitzer Prize collection.
Cheever’s perspectives on writing and life are preserved in various quotes, including the statement that "Art is the triumph over chaos" and the observation that "Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time." He also noted that "The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one’s life and discover one’s usefulness."
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Key facts
- Born
- John William Cheever , ( 1912-05-27 ) May 27, 1912, Quincy, Massachusetts , U.S.
- Died
- June 18, 1982 (1982-06-18) (aged 70), Ossining, New York , U.S.
- Occupation
- Writer novelist
- Period
- 20th century
- Genre
- Short story , fiction
- Literary movement
- Symbolism
- Years active
- 1935–1982
- Notable works
- " The Enormous Radio " " The Five-Forty-Eight " The Wapshot Chronicle " The Swimmer " The Wapshot Scandal Bullet Park Falconer Oh What a Paradise It Seems
- Notable awards
- Pulitzer Prize (1979), National Book Critics Circle Award (1981)
- Spouse
- Mary Winternitz ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1941 )
- Children
- Susan Benjamin Federico
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- William
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Quincy
- Place of death
- Ossining
- Occupation
- novelist
- Employer
- University of Iowa
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Johncheever.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1912-05-27
- date of death
- 1982-06-18
- cause of death
- kidney cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- birth name
- John William Cheever
- name in native language
- John Cheever
- contributor to the creative work or subject
- The New Yorker
- Commons category
- John Cheever
Sources (3)
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Article · Italiano
William John Cheever (Quincy, 27 maggio 1912 – Ossining, 18 giugno 1982) è stato uno scrittore statunitense. È stato chiamato "il Čechov dei sobborghi". I suoi romanzi e racconti sono per massima parte ambientati nell'Upper East Side di Manhattan, i sobborghi della Contea di Westchester, i sei stati del New England (in vecchi villaggi del New Hampshire, del Massachusetts, del Vermont, del Connecticut, del Rhode Island e del Maine), intorno a Quincy, suo luogo natale, e in Italia, soprattutto a Roma. È riconosciuto come uno degli scrittori più importanti del Novecento statunitense, e ricordato soprattutto per i racconti brevi, misura in cui eccelle, ma è stato anche autore di romanzi, tra cui il famoso Falconer. Ha vinto il National Book Award per la narrativa (la prima volta nel 1958 per il romanzo The Wapshot Chronicle), e ha vinto il Premio Pulitzer per la narrativa per la raccolta The Stories of John Cheever (1979), che è stata premiata anche con il National Book Critics Circle Award per la narrativa nel 1978 e il National Book Award per la narrativa nel 1981, ex aequo con il romanzo Plains Song di Wright Morris.
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