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Cheever appeared on the cover of Time magazine's March 27 issue, this for an appreciative profile, "Ovid in Ossining". In Cheever had moved to a stately, stone-ended Dutch Colonial farmhouse in Ossining, on the east bank of the Hudson. Cheever noted with chagrin that the story one of his best appeared toward the back of the issue—behind a John Updike story—since, as it happened, Maxwell and other editors at the magazine were a little bewildered by its non- New Yorker ish surrealism.
In the summer of , a screen adaptation of "The Swimmer", starring Burt Lancaster , was filmed in Westport, Connecticut. Cheever was a frequent visitor on the set, and made a cameo appearance in the movie. By then Cheever's alcoholism had become severe, exacerbated by torment concerning his bisexuality. Still, he blamed most of his marital woes on his wife, and in he consulted a psychiatrist, David C. Hays, about her hostility and "needless darkness". After a session with Mary Cheever, the psychiatrist asked to see the couple jointly; Cheever, heartened, believed his wife's difficult behavior would finally be addressed.
At the joint session, however, Hays said as Cheever noted in his journal that Cheever himself was the problem: But in the gluey atmosphere of Bullet Park no birds sing. He began an affair with actress Hope Lange in the late s. On May 12, , Cheever awoke coughing uncontrollably, and learned at the hospital that he had almost died from pulmonary edema caused by alcoholism. After a month in the hospital, he returned home vowing never to drink again; however, he resumed drinking in August.
Despite his precarious health, he spent the fall semester teaching and drinking, both with fellow writer-teacher, Raymond Carver [19] at the Iowa Writers' Workshop , where his students included T. Boyle , Allan Gurganus , and Ron Hansen. As his marriage continued to deteriorate, Cheever accepted a professorship at Boston University the following year and moved into a fourth-floor walkup apartment at 71 Bay State Road. Cheever's drinking soon became suicidal and, in March , his brother Fred, now virtually indigent, but sober after his own lifelong bout with alcoholism, drove John back to Ossining.
Driven home by his wife on May 7, Cheever never drank alcohol again. The Stories of John Cheever appeared in October , and became one of the most successful collections ever, selling , copies in hardback and winning universal acclaim. In the summer of , a tumor was discovered in Cheever's right lung, and, in late November, he returned to the hospital and learned that the cancer had spread to his femur, pelvis, and bladder. Cheever's last novel, Oh What a Paradise It Seems , was published in March ; only pages long and relatively inferior as Cheever himself suspected , the book received respectful reviews in part because it was widely known the author was dying of cancer.
On April 27, he received the National Medal for Literature at Carnegie Hall , where colleagues were shocked by Cheever's ravaged appearance after months of cancer therapy. Cheever died on June 18, In , Cheever's widow, Mary, signed a contract with a small publisher, Academy Chicago, for the right to publish Cheever's uncollected short stories.
The contract led to a long legal battle and a book of 13 stories by the author entitled Fall River and Other Uncollected Stories , published in by Academy Chicago Publishers. Two of Cheever's children, Susan and Benjamin , became writers.
Susan's memoir, Home Before Dark , revealed Cheever's bisexuality, which was confirmed by his posthumously published letters and journals. This was parodied to comedic effect in a episode of the TV sitcom Seinfeld , when the character Susan discovers explicit love letters from Cheever to her father. Also in , Cheever was featured in Soul of a People: Cheever's name is mentioned in the lyrics of song "Carin at the Liquor Store" [26] by the American band The National.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. American novelist and short story writer. From to in National Book Awards history there were dual hardcover and paperback awards in most categories. Most of the paperback award-winners were reprints, including this one.
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They are about what drives us, what haunts us, and what makes us start when something in the night goes bump — or even speaks out loud. Erik Boman is a writer from Oxford.
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