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ohn cheever was born May 27, 1912, in Quincy, Massachusetts, the son of Frederick L. and Mary Liley Cheever. ... That was the end of John Cheever's formal education but the beginning of his literary career, for it led to his first story ...
ohn cheever was born May 27, 1912, in Quincy, Massachusetts, the son of Frederick L. and Mary Liley Cheever. ... That was the end of John Cheever's formal education but the beginning of his literary career, for it led to his first story ...
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The New Yorker has served as patron to John Cheever for four decades, although he has rarely written "a New Yorker story" — elegant, charming, inconsequential — since his first book was published in 1943. In the later stories characters ...
The New Yorker has served as patron to John Cheever for four decades, although he has rarely written "a New Yorker story" — elegant, charming, inconsequential — since his first book was published in 1943. In the later stories characters ...
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"John Cheever's Stories," New Republic, 108:516-17 (19 April 1943). Kendle, Burton. "Cheever's Use of Mythology in ' The Enormous Radio, ' ' ' Studies in Short Fiction, 4:262-64(1967). Malcolm, Donald. "John Cheever's Photograph Album," ...
"John Cheever's Stories," New Republic, 108:516-17 (19 April 1943). Kendle, Burton. "Cheever's Use of Mythology in ' The Enormous Radio, ' ' ' Studies in Short Fiction, 4:262-64(1967). Malcolm, Donald. "John Cheever's Photograph Album," ...
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| Title | American writers: a collection of literary biographies. Jane Addams to Sidney Lanier |
| Editor | Leonard Unger |
| Publisher | Charles Scribner's sons, 1979 |
| ISBN | 0684157977, 9780684157979 |
| Length | 373 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / American / General |
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