Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow
by John Cheever, Hortense Calisher, Ludwig Bemelmans, Shirley Jackson, John Keir Cross, Christine Noble Govan, E.B. White, Ray Bradbury, John Steinbeck, Helen Eustis, Nigel Kneale, Josephine Winslow Johnson, Robert M. Coates, Roald Dahl, J.C. Furnas, Henry Kuttner, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Christopher Isherwood, William Sansom, Jean Hrolda, Russell Maloney, John B.L. Goodwin, Wessel Hyatt Smitter, Sidney Carroll, Franz Kafka
About this book
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Bantam Books
- Published
- 1976
- Pages
- 258
- ISBN
- 9780553102499
- Language
- en
About John Cheever
**John William Cheever** (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American short story writer and novelist. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". His fiction is mostly set on the Upper East Side of Manhattan; the Westchester suburbs; old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born; and Italy, especially Rome. His short stories included *The Enormous Radio, Goodbye, My Brother, The Five-Forty-Eight, The Country Husband,* and *The Swimmer,* and he also wrote five novels: *The Wapshot Chronicle* (National Book Award, 1958), *The Wapshot Scandal* (William Dean Howells Medal, 1965), *Bullet Park* (1969), *Falconer* (1977) and a novella, *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, six weeks before his death, 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.
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