John Cheever Γενέθλια, Ημερομηνία Γέννησης

John Cheever

John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American short story writer and novelist. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". 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 he was born; and Italy, especially Rome. His short stories included "The Enormous Radio", "Goodbye, My Brother", "The Five-Forty-Eight", "The Country Husband", and "The Swimmer", and he also wrote five novels: The Wapshot Chronicle (National Book Award, 1958), The Wapshot Scandal (William Dean Howells Medal, 1965), Bullet Park (1969), Falconer (1977) and a novella, Oh What a Paradise It Seems (1982).

His main themes include the duality of human nature: sometimes dramatized as the disparity between a character's decorous social persona and inner corruption, and sometimes as a conflict between two characters (often brothers) who embody the salient aspects of both—light and dark, flesh and spirit. Many of his works also express a nostalgia for a vanishing way of life (as evoked by the mythical St. Botolphs in the Wapshot novels), characterized by abiding cultural traditions and a profound sense of community, as opposed to the alienating nomadism of modern suburbia.

A compilation of his short stories, The Stories of John Cheever, won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and a National Book Critics Circle Award, and its first paperback edition won a 1981 National Book Award.

On April 27, 1982, six weeks before his death, Cheever was awarded the National Medal for Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been included in the Library of America.

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Γενέθλια, Ημερομηνία Γέννησης
Δευτέρα 27 Μαΐου 1912
Τόπος γέννησης
Quincy
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27th of May 1912 News

Ειδήσεις όπως εμφανίστηκαν στην πρώτη σελίδα των New York Times στο 27 Μαΐου 1912

SMITH OUTLINES HIS REPORT ON TITANIC; Document Will Go to the Senate Tuesday, and Senator Will Speak on Subject.

Date: 27 May 1912

Special to The New York Times

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Date: 27 May 1912

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REBELS ALREADY NUMBER 4,000; American Merchant Doubts if Gomez Can Cope with the Uprising.

Date: 27 May 1912

Special to The New York Times

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WHEAT BELT SHOWS BRIGHTER PROMISE; Foreign Fields Also Report Good Outlook, but Prices Mount on Stronger Demand.

Date: 27 May 1912

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CHOOSES MARCONI SYSTEM.; Portugal Takes England's Advice Against That of Germany.

Date: 28 May 1912

By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times

Marconi Wireless

Portugal adopts Marconi system, as advised by GB, over Ger Telefunken Co system

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PAN-AMERICA.

Date: 28 May 1912

ed on Knox s

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40,000 CHEER THE PRESIDENT.; Will Win All but Two Delegates, Says Briggs -- Five Counties Visited.

Date: 28 May 1912

Special to The New York Times

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Ex-President De Romana of Peru.

Date: 28 May 1912

Ex-Pres of Peru; dies

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DA GAMA ASSAILS US FOR COFFEE SEIZURE; Brazil's Ambassador Stirs Pan-American Diners by Criticism of Our Government.

Date: 28 May 1912

Latin Amer Ambs and Mins feted by Pan-Amer Union, NYC; Mayor Gaynor, Knox, Repr Sulzer, others s on US-Latin Amer relations; excerpts

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CUBA TO FIGHT WITHOUT OUR AID; Gomez Cables The Times That Help Is Not Needed -- Nation's Honor at Stake.

Date: 28 May 1912

By JOSE MIGUEL GOMEZ, President of Cuba

Jose GOMEZ

Gomez cable to Times says Negro uprising affects only 9 municipalities in Oriente Prov and he will put it down without US aid; Taft message to Gomez says naval preparations are only to guard Amers and US will not intervene; texts

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