John Cheever was an American novelist and short story writer, sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs" or "the Ovid of Ossining." His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the suburbs of Westchester, New York, and old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born. 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, characterized by abiding cultural traditions and a profound sense of community, as opposed to the alienating nomadism of modern suburbia.
Books
Drinking
Vintage Minis
2017
Reunion
1962
The Brigadier and the Golf Widow
1964
The Wapshot Scandal
1964
Some People, Places, and Things That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel
1961
Falconer
1977
Bullet Park
1967
The World of Apples
1946
The Stories of John Cheever
1978
The Journals of John Cheever
1990
The Country Husband
2025
Essential Cheever
2006
Fall River and Other Uncollected Stories
1994
Selected Short Stories
1980
The John Cheever Audio Collection
2003
Oh What a Paradise It Seems
1977
Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor
2009
LETTERS OF JOHN CHEEVER
1988
Vintage Cheever
2005
The Swimmer
1964
Magical Realist Fiction
An Anthology
1984
John Cheever
Complete Novels
2009
The Wapshot Chronicle
1957
The Enormous Radio
1953
The Sorrows of Gin
1996
New York stories
2015
A Vision of the World
Selected Short Stories
2021
The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories
1958
Collected Stories and Other Writings
2009
American Gothic Tales
1996
Goodbye, My Brother
1951
La geometría del amor
2002
The Jewels of the Cabots (Kindle Single)
2009
Thirteen Uncollected Stories By John Cheever
2005
