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BIOGRAPHY John Cheever (1912-1982), the leading exponent of the kind of carefully fashioned story of modern suburban manners that The New Yorker popularized, has been called by the reviewer John Leonard "the Chekhov of the suburbs." Cheever spent most of his life in New York City and in suburban towns similar to the ones he described in much of his fiction. Born in Quincy, Massachusetts, he was raised by parents who owned a prosperous business that failed after the 1929 stock market crash. His parents enjoyed reading literature to him, so at an early age he was acquainted with the fiction of Charles Dickens, Jack London, and Robert Louis Stevenson. He started his career at an unusually young age. Expelled from Thayer Academy for being, by his own account, a "quarrelsome, intractable... and lousy student," he moved to New York City, lived in a cell of a room on a bread-and-buttermilk diet, and wrote stories. When his first one, "Expelled," was accepted for publication by Malcolm Cowley, then editor of the New Republic, Cheever was launched as a teenager into a career as a writer of fiction. Cheever's first collection of stories, The Way Some People Live, appeared in 1942, while he was completing a four-year stint of army duty. In 1953 he strengthened his literary reputation with the book The Enormous Radio and Other Stories, a collection of fourteen of his New Yorker pieces. Six years later appeared another story collection, The Housebreaker of Shady Hill. In the 1960s and 1970s he published three more books of short stories and two widely acclaimed novels, Bullet Park (1969) and Falconer (1977). The Stories of John Cheever, published in 1978, won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award and became one of the few collections of short stories ever to make the New York Times bestseller list. In more than fifty years, Cheever published over 200 magazine stories; he figured that he earned "enough money to feed the family and buy a new suit every other year."
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