| John Cheever  Born: 27-May-1912
Birthplace: Quincy, MA
Died: 18-Jun-1982
Location of death: Ossining, NY
Cause of death: Cancer - Kidney
Remains: Buried, First Parish Cemetery, Norwell, MA
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Bisexual [1]
Occupation: Author Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Enormous Radio Military service: US Army (WWII, infantry gunner, Signal Corps)
[1] The Letters of John Cheever (1988).
Father: (owned a shoe factory)
Slept with: Walker Evans (photographer)
Wife: Mary Winternitz (m. 1941)
Daughter: Susan (novelist)
Son: Benjamin Cheever (novelist, husband of Janet Maslin)
Son: Frederico
Mistress: Hope Lange
League of American Writers
Guggenheim Fellowship 1951
National Book Award for Fiction 1958 for The Wapshot Chronicle
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1979 for The Stories of John Cheever
American Book Award 1979 for The Stories of John Cheever
Heart Attack (1973)
Smithers Addiction Treatment Center New York City (one month, mid 1970's)
Author of books:
The Way Some People Live (1943, short stories)
The Enormous Radio and Other Stories (1953, short stories)
The Wapshot Chronicle (1957, novel)
The Brigadier and the Golf Widow (1964, short stories)
The Wapshot Scandal (1964, novel)
Bullet Park (1969, novel)
The World of Apples (1973, short stories)
Falconer (1977, novel)
The Stories of John Cheever (1978, short stories)
Oh What a Paradise It Seems (1982, novel)
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