The Stories of John Cheever

About Author

John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1912. At the age of 23, Cheever published his first story in the New Yorker, beginning what would be an essential professional relationship spanning five decades and more than 100 stories. His first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle, was published in 1957 and won the National Book Award. It was followed by The Wapshot Scandal (1964), Bullet Park (1969), Falconer (1977), and Oh What a Paradise It Seems (1982). In 1978 The Stories of John Cheever won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He received the National Medal for Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and the Howells Medal for Fiction from the National Academy of Arts and Letters. John Cheever died in 1982. His complete work is included in the Library of America.