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Education: Attended Thayer Academy. Religion: Episcopal. Hobbies and other interests: Sailing and skiing.

“Only dogs, servants, and children know

Novelist and short story writer. Member of cultural exchange program to U. Military service: U. Army Signal Corps, ; became sergeant. With John D. Also author of television scripts, including Life with Father. Contributor to numerous anthologies, including O. Henry Prize Stories , , , , John Cheever is among the finest American writers of the twentieth century.

His stories chronicle the spiritual shortcomings of upper-class suburbia while maintaining an optimistic outlook and a sense of humor. Robert A. Morace, writing in the Dictionary of Literary Biography , explained that "his characters all face a similar problem: how to live in a world which, in spite of its middle-class comforts and assurances, suddenly appears inhospitable, even dangerous.

Prescott in Newsweek , "that in a world that most people envy there are people who are bravely enduring. His father owned a shoe factory in nearby Lynn, but he lost the business during the Great Depression.