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John Cheever

1912 - 1982

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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). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Cheever is the 1,119th most popular writer (up from 2,649th in 2019), the 1,591st most popular biography from United States (up from 3,368th in 2019) and the 127th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, John Cheever ranks 1,119 out of 7,302. Before him are Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Len Deighton, Nikolai Leskov, Jeff Lindsay, Rustichello da Pisa, and Arturo Pérez-Reverte. After him are Aleksis Kivi, Arnold Zweig, Tannhäuser, Diana Wynne Jones, Chinua Achebe, and Jorge Semprún.

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Among people born in 1912, John Cheever ranks 68. Before him are Salvador Luria, Otto Kretschmer, Kim Sung-gan, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Abbé Pierre, and Rodolfo Gucci. After him are Sonny Boy Williamson II, Pat Nixon, John Payne, Minoru Yamasaki, Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, and György Sárosi. Among people deceased in 1982, John Cheever ranks 53. Before him are Hermann Balck, Helen of Greece and Denmark, E. H. Carr, Bachir Gemayel, Thelonious Monk, and Meša Selimović. After him are Shiro Teshima, Gershom Scholem, Takashi Shimura, Mario Del Monaco, Vladimir K. Zworykin, and Sobhuza II.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Cheever ranks 1,591 out of 20,380. Before him are Carl Woese (1928), Jeff Lindsay (1952), Louis Zamperini (1917), Clyde Drexler (1962), Billy Bob Thornton (1955), and Sissy Spacek (1949). After him are Alyson Hannigan (1974), Stephanie Kwolek (1923), Dale T. Mortensen (1939), Thomas Curtis (1873), Joseph Nye (1937), and Robert Rauschenberg (1925).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, John Cheever ranks 127. Before him are Edith Wharton (1862), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807), Harriet Jacobs (1813), Tess Gerritsen (1953), Roger Zelazny (1937), and Jeff Lindsay (1952). After him are Will Durant (1885), Walter Lippmann (1889), John Dickson Carr (1906), Jean Webster (1876), Irving Stone (1903), and Danielle Steel (1947).

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