Биография и литературная карьера Джона Чивера

John Cheever Biography and literary career

John William Cheever  –was an American novelist and short story writer.

He was born in 1912 in the little town of Quincey, Massachusetts.

In 1926, Cheever began attending Thayer Academy. A year later he won a short story contest sponsored by the  Boston Herald.  From this point he started his literary career.

Cheever’s works gained a worldwide fame. Among them:

Short story collections :

• The Way Some People Live  (1943)
• The Enormous Radio and Other Stories  (1953)
• Stories  (with Jean Stafford, Daniel Fuchs, and William Maxwell) (1956)
• The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories  (1958)
• Some People, Places and Things That Will Not Appear In My Next Novel  (1961)
• Reunion  (1962)
• The Brigadier and the Golf Widow  (1964) The World of Apples  (1973)
• The Stories of John Cheever  (1978)
• Fall River and Other Uncollected Stories  (1994)

Novels :

• The Wapshot Chronicle  (1957)
• The Wapshot Scandal  (1964)
• Bullet Park  (1969)
• Falconer  (1977)
• Oh What a Paradise It Seems  (1982)

A compilation 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 paperback edition won a 1981 National Book Award.

On April 27, 1982 Cheever was awarded the National Medal for Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been included in the Library of America.

In the summer of 1981, a tumor was discovered in Cheever's right kidney. He died in 1982.