John Cheever

John Cheever (May 27, 1912–June 18, 1982) was a American novelist and short story writer, sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs." His The Stories of John Cheever won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1979.

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His most significant works include the Wapshot books. (The Wapshot Chronicle won the National Book Award in 1958) and the collection The Stories of John Cheever, which won the Pulitzer Prize. He was a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, and was considered one of the purest examples of "the New Yorker writer".

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Cheever claimed in his diaries to have been diagnosed with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) by a marriage counselor that his wife forced him to see. He was also an alcoholic. Cheever's real-life bisexuality was referenced in an episode of Seinfeld, "The Cheever Letters", in which correspondence from Cheever is discovered, revealing Cheever had an affair with Susan Ross' father.

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