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John William Cheever (May 27, – June 18, ) was an American short story writer and novelist. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". [1][2] 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.

In the life of fiction master John Cheever, biographer Blake Bailey finds a haunting tale of mid-century homosexual self-loathing.