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John Cheever

John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912. He is the author of seven collections of stories and five novels. His first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle, won the 1958 National Book Award. In 1965 he received the Howells Medal for Fiction from the National Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 1978 The Stories of John Cheever won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Shortly before his death in 1982, he was awarded the National Medal for Literature from the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
The Wapshot Chronicle
The Wapshot Scandal
The Jewels of the Cabots
The Journals of John Cheever
The Stories of John Cheever (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Oh What a Paradise It Seems
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Books

The Wapshot Chronicle
The Wapshot Scandal
The Jewels of the Cabots
The Journals of John Cheever
The Stories of John Cheever (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Oh What a Paradise It Seems
Bullet Park
Falconer

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