biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1912–82)
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| biography:
| Short-story writer and novelist, born in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA. By the time he was 22 the New Yorker was accepting his work, and for years he contributed a dozen stories a year to it. After World War 2 he taught composition and wrote scripts for television, but in 1951 a Guggenheim Fellowship allowed him to devote his attention to writing. His books include The Wapshot Chronicle (1957, National Book Award) and its sequel, The Wapshot Scandal (1964, Howell's Medal for Fiction), and The Stories of John Cheever (1979, Pulitzer). |
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