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Kidney</a><br><b>Remains:</b> Buried, First Parish Cemetery, Norwell, MA<br><p><b>Gender:</b> Male<br><b>Race or Ethnicity:</b> White<br><b>Sexual orientation:</b> <a href="/lists/244/000069037/" class=proflink>Bisexual</a> <font size=-1><a href="#FN1">[1]</a></font><br><b>Occupation:</b> Author<p><b>Nationality:</b> United States<br><b>Executive summary:</b> <i>The Enormous Radio</i><p><b>Military service:</b> US Army (WWII, infantry gunner, Signal Corps)<p><hr width=25% size=1 align=left><a name="FN1"><font size=-1>[1] <i>The Letters of John Cheever</i> (1988). </font><p><b>Father:</b> (owned a shoe factory)<br><b>Slept with:</b> Walker Evans (photographer)<br><b>Wife:</b> Mary Winternitz (m. 1941)<br><b>Daughter:</b> Susan (novelist)<br><b>Son:</b> Benjamin Cheever (novelist, husband of <a href="/people/889/000055724/">Janet Maslin</a>)<br><b>Son:</b> Frederico<br><b>Mistress:</b> <a href="/people/022/000023950/">Hope Lange</a><br><p> <a href="/org/041/000353976/">League of American Writers</a> <br> <a href="/honors/485/000032389/">Guggenheim Fellowship</a> 1951<br> <a href="/honors/885/000068681/">National Book Award for Fiction</a> 1958 for <i>The Wapshot Chronicle</i><br> <a href="/honors/278/000073059/">Pulitzer Prize for Fiction</a> 1979 for <i>The Stories of John Cheever</i><br> <a href="/honors/233/000048089/">American Book Award</a> 1979 for <i>The Stories of John Cheever</i><br> <a href="/event/170/000087906/">Heart Attack</a> (1973)<br> <a href="/detox/453/000042327/">Smithers Addiction Treatment Center</a> New York City (one month, mid 1970's)<br><p> <b>Author of books:</b><br> <i>The Way Some People Live</i> (<tt>1943</tt>, short stories)<br><i>The Enormous Radio and Other Stories</i> (<tt>1953</tt>, short stories)<br><i>The Wapshot Chronicle</i> (<tt>1957</tt>, novel)<br><i>The Brigadier and the Golf Widow</i> (<tt>1964</tt>, short stories)<br><i>The Wapshot Scandal</i> (<tt>1964</tt>, novel)<br><i>Bullet Park</i> (<tt>1969</tt>, novel)<br><i>The World of Apples</i> (<tt>1973</tt>, short stories)<br><i>Falconer</i> (<tt>1977</tt>, novel)<br><i>The Stories of John Cheever</i> (<tt>1978</tt>, short stories)<br><i>Oh What a Paradise It Seems</i> (<tt>1982</tt>, novel)<br><p> <br> <p> <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: italic; color: #ff3333;">New!</span><br> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=48231"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=48231">John Cheever</a></td> </tr> </table> <font face="Trebuchet MS, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</font> <br><br><p> <font size=-1>Do you know something we don't?</font><br> <font size=-1><a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=48231" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a></font><br> <p> <br><br><p><font size=-1>Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications</font><p> </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"></td></tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>