John Cheever (1912–1982)
Autor de La edad de oro
Sobre El Autor
John Cheever, best known for his short stories dealing with upper-middle-class suburban life, was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912. Cheever published his first short story at the age of 17, and in 1979, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his collected edition of short stories, titled Stories of mostrar más John Cheever. Cheever also wrote screenplays, and five novels, including The Wapshot Chronicle, which won the National Book Award in 1957. Cheever died in 1982, at the age of 70. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Photo by Nancy Crampton, courtesy of Ossining Public Library
Series
Obras de John Cheever
Glad Tidings: A Friendship in Letters : The Correspondence of John Cheever and John D. Weaver, 1945-1982 (1993) 16 copias
The Day The Pig Fell Into The Well 7 copias
The Country Husband 6 copias
Essential Cheever CD: The Enormous Radio and The Swimmer (Caedmon Essentials) (2006) 6 copias, 1 reseña
Torch Song 4 copias
The Sutton Place Story 4 copias
Selected short stories 3 copias
The Superintendent 3 copias
A Woman Without A Country 2 copias
Hyvästi, veljeni : kertomuksia 2 copias
“The Enormous Radio” 2 copias
The Happiest Days 2 copias
Clementina 2 copias
The Pot of Gold 2 copias
The Bus To St. James's 2 copias
Just One More Time 2 copias
The Worm In The Apple 2 copias
The Bella Lingua 2 copias
The Children 2 copias
The Cure 2 copias
The Wrysons 2 copias
The Scarlet Moving Van 2 copias
Clancy in the Tower of Babel 2 copias
The Summer Farmer 2 copias
The Hartleys 2 copias
The Common Day 2 copias
Rare John Cheever FALCONER Signed First Edition 1977 -Alfred A. Knopf [Hardcover] John Cheever 2 copias
Frère Jacques 1 copia
Ovo stvarno liči na raj 1 copia
John Cheever Stories 1 copia
The City of Lost Dreams 1 copia
Odabrane priče 1 copia
RARE 1957 JOHN CHEEVER FIRST NOVEL 1ST EDITION WAPSHOT CHRONICLE GREAT DJ [Hardcover] JOHN CHEEVER 1 copia
The National Pastime 1 copia
Wizja świata 1 copia
Contos completos II 1 copia
Brimmer 1 copia
Just Tell Me Who It Was 1 copia
Boy In Rome 1 copia
The Music Teacher 1 copia
The Lowboy 1 copia
The Golden Age 1 copia
The Duchess 1 copia
The Seaside Houses 1 copia
Selected Prose 1 copia
The art of fiction LXII 1 copia
Signs of hope 1 copia
Of love: a testimony 1 copia
The Chimera 1 copia
An Educated American Woman 1 copia
Artemis, The Honest Well Digger 1 copia
Miłosna Ballada 1 copia
Cheever John 1 copia
Three Stories 1 copia
The Fourth Alarm 1 copia
Metamorphoses 1 copia
Percy 1 copia
Another Story 1 copia
Marito in Città 1 copia
The Ocean 1 copia
Montraldo 1 copia
Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin 1 copia
Orasul visurilor spulberate 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 938 copias, 7 reseñas
Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink (2007) — Contribuidor — 545 copias, 10 reseñas
In the Stacks: Short Stories about Libraries and Librarians (2002) — Contribuidor — 540 copias, 13 reseñas
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (1986) — Contribuidor — 464 copias, 4 reseñas
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Contribuidor — 381 copias, 3 reseñas
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (2009) — Contribuidor — 268 copias, 5 reseñas
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Contribuidor — 184 copias, 1 reseña
In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994) — Contribuidor — 179 copias, 2 reseñas
New York Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics) (2011) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 161 copias, 5 reseñas
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contribuidor — 134 copias, 1 reseña
Adaptations: From Short Story to Big Screen: 35 Great Stories That Have Inspired Great Films (2005) — Contribuidor — 124 copias, 2 reseñas
McSweeney's Issue 45 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Hitchcock and Bradbury Fistfight in Heaven (2013) — Contribuidor — 107 copias, 5 reseñas
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Contribuidor — 94 copias, 1 reseña
Cape Cod Stories: Tales from Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha's Vineyard (1996) — Contribuidor — 52 copias, 5 reseñas
The Second Gates of Paradise: The Anthology of Erotic Short Fiction (1997) — Contribuidor — 38 copias
Selected Shorts: American Classics (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2010) — Contribuidor — 24 copias, 5 reseñas
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Contribuidor — 13 copias, 1 reseña
The Best Short Stories of 1939 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1939) — Contribuidor — 7 copias
Fifty Years of the American Short Story: from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (Volume I) (1970) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
Moderne Amerikaanse verhalen — Contribuidor — 3 copias
Vader is de beste — Autor — 3 copias
The Human Commitment - An Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction — Contribuidor — 1 copia
32 Współczesne Opowiadania Amerykańskie - Tom I — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Cheever, John
- Nombre legal
- Cheever, John William
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1912-05-27
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1982-06-18
- Lugar de sepultura
- First Parish Cemetery, Norwell, Massachusetts, USA
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Quincy, Massachusetts, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Ossining, New York, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- cancer
- Lugares de residencia
- Wollaston, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA - Educación
- Quincy High School
Thayer Academy - Ocupaciones
- short-story writer
novelist - Relaciones
- Cheever, Susan (daughter)
Cheever, Benjamin (son)
Bellow, Saul (friend)
Young, Florence Liley (aunt)
Cheever, Federico (son) - Organizaciones
- National Institute of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1957)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1973) - Premios y honores
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1956)
National Medal for Literature (1982)
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1979)
Edward MacDowell Medal (1979)
National Book Award (1958, 1981) - Agente
- William Loverd
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- Obras
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- También por
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- Miembros
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- Popularidad
- #2,260
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
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- ISBNs
- 376
- Idiomas
- 21
- Favorito
- 39
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