Person Detail: John Cheever

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General Information:
Full Name: John Cheever
Biography: (1912-1982) Short story writer, novelist. John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts. He moved to New York City in early 1930s and befriended John Dos Passos, E. E Cummings, and James Agee. His stories were published in The New Republic, Colliers, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker, among other magazines. Cheever moved to Crotonville, New York, a suburb of Ossinning, in the 1950s and, over the next three decades, lived and wrote there between teaching stints at Barnard College, University of Iowa, and Boston University. Cheever also taught at Sing Sing in the early 1970s. Cheever won many awards in the course of his lifetime, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Book Award (for "The Wapshot Chronicle"), the Howells Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Books Critics Circle Award, and an American Book Award.
Author's Timeline:
1935		New York County Cheever moved to New York City in the mid 1930s and lived on Hudson Street in Greenwich Village.
1950		Westchester County Cheever moved to Crotonville, New York, a suburb of Ossinning, New York, in the 1950s.
1912		(Unknown) County John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1912.
1982		Westchester County John Cheever died in Ossining, New York, in 1982.
1943		(Unknown) County The Way Some People Live Collection of short stories.
1953		Westchester County The Enormous Radio, and Other Stories Collection of short stories written in Cheever's Scarborough, New York home.
1957		(Unknown) County The Wapshot Chronicle Novel and winner of the National Book Award.
1958		(Unknown) County The Housebreaker of Shady Hill Novel.
1961		(Unknown) County Some People, Places and Things That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel Collection of short stories.
1964		(Unknown) County The Wapshot Scandal Novel.
1964		(Unknown) County The Brigadier and the Golf Widow Collection of short stories.
1969		(Unknown) County Bullet Park Novel.
1973		(Unknown) County The World of Apples Collection of short stories.
1977		(Unknown) County Falconer Novel.
1978		(Unknown) County The Stories of John Cheever Collection of short stories and Pulitzer Prize winner.
1982		(Unknown) County Oh What a Paradise It Seems Novella.
1982		(Unknown) County Cheever was interred in the First Parish Cemetery, Norwell, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.
?		Saratoga County Cheever spent times at the artists' retreat, Yaddo, in Saratoga Springs, New York.
?		Westchester County Cheever had a home in Scarborough, New York.