John Cheever was an American writer born in 1912 in Massachusetts. He is regarded as one of the most important 20th century American short story writers. Throughout his career, he suppressed his bisexuality and alcoholism. Some of his most famous works include The Enormous Radio and Other Stories and The Stories of John Cheever. He died in 1982 from cancer caused by his long battle with alcoholism.

1. John Cheever

2. His Life
 His dates were May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982 (70-years-old when he died)
 He was born in Quincy, Massachussets.
 He was expelled from Thayer Academy for smoking when he was 17
 He is regarded as one of the most important twentieth-century American
writers of short fiction.
 Some of the nicknames he received were "the Ovid of Ossining," "the Dante
of suburbia," and "the Chekhov of the exurbs” because his ability to write
about upper middle class Americans. (Gale)

3. Fame
 Once he moved to Boston he started working in department stores and for
newspapers.
 Throughout the 1930s Cheever published stories in various magazines
including Atlantic, Colliers, Story, The New Yorker and the Yale Review.
 Throughout his career he suppressed his bisexuality and alcoholism(Bailey)
 Cheever claimed in his diaries to have been diagnosed with Narcissistic
Personality Disorder by a marriage counselor that his wife forced him to see.
 Ended up dying from cancer.

4. Cheever’s works
 The Way Some People Live (1943)
 The Enormous Radio and Other Stories (1953)
 Stories (with Jean Stafford, Daniel Fuchs, and William Maxwell) (1956)
 The Wapshot Novel (1957)
 The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories (1958)
 Some People, Places and Things That Will Not Appear In My Next Novel
(1961)

5. Cheever’s works continued
 The Wapshot Scandal (1964)
 The Brigadier and the Golf Widow (1964)
 Bullet Park (1969)
 The World of Apples (1973
 Falconer (1977)
 The Stories of John Cheever (1978)
 Oh What a Paradise it Seems (1982)

6. Personal Life
 He died from pulmonary edema caused by his alcoholism
 On April 9, Cheever was admitted to the Smithers Alcoholic Rehabilitation
Unit in New York.
 Once he died of cancer in the kidneys his children Ben and Susan published
his personal letters and journals reveling his bisexuality and alcoholism to
the public.

7. Work Cited
 Bailey, Blake. "John Cheever's 'Hollywood problem'." Harvard Review 30 (2006):
94+. Literature Resource Center. Web. 9 July 2012.
 Coale, Samuel. "Cheever, John (1912-1982)." Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia of American
Literature. George B. Perkins, Barbara Perkins, and Phillip Leininger. Vol. 1. New
York: HarperCollins, 1991. 178. Literature Resource Center. Web. 9 July 2012.
 "John Cheever." Gale Online Encyclopedia. Detroit: Gale, 2012. Literature Resource
Center. Web. 9 July 2012.
 “John Cheever Biography and Notes” Biblio.com. Web. 9 July 2012
 "John Cheever." (2012): n. page. Print. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cheever