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John Cheever Quotes
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.
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| Birth: | 27th May, 1912 |
| Death: | 18th June, 1982 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Novelist, Writer |
About
John William Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA. He was an American novelist and short story writer. He studied at Thayer Academy, a private day school, and Quincy High School, Massachusetts. He is "now recognized as one of the most important short fiction writers of the 20th century." He wrote several novels include: The Wapshot Chronicle (Won- National Book Award for Fiction in 1958), The Wapshot Scandal (Won- William Dean Howells Medal in 1965), Bullet Park, Falconer, and Oh What a Paradise It Seems (novella). He wrote several short stories include: The Way Some People Live, The Enormous Radio, The Five-Forty-Eight, Reunion, The Brigadier and the Golf Widow, The World of Apples (Nominations: National Book Award for Fiction), The Stories of John Cheever (Won- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1979, National Book Critics Circle Award in 1979), and The Swimmer.
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