One of the signal virtues of The Stories of John Cheever is that Cheever was among the last great American moralists.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘The Stories of John Cheever,’ a Titan Among Past Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference

"The field has advanced faster because of her," says Martin Cheever, a medical oncologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington.    From Wordnik.com.  [Olja Finn: Immunologist and Mother] Reference

Cheever is one of the masters of the form.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stories of John Cheever] Reference

Appearance is everything in Cheever's works.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stories of John Cheever] Reference

Look up and you'll be an old fashioned brick street marker that reads "Cheever" on one said and "Harrison" on the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kane Slew Harrison] Reference

Excerpted from "Cheever" by Blake Bailey Copyright © 2009 by Blake Bailey.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Cheever: A Life'] Reference

After all, Cheever was one of the great storytellers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story He Told Himself] Reference

FRANCIS: Aye, Cheever come and take her in his wagon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crucible]

Again and again Cheever nests one story into another.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Cheever's Cruel Paradoxes] Reference

Cheever waits placidly, the sublime official, dutiful.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crucible]

She walks out the door, Herrick and Cheever behind her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crucible]

Cheever has hurried to the bench with pen, ink, and paper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crucible]

Cheever goes to Proctor, the confession and a pen in hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crucible]

Herrick escorts them out, Hathorne and Cheever behind them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crucible]

Cheever, George B., tours England in behalf of the Union, iii.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

My thought was, "I'll never read anything new from Cheever again.".    From Wordnik.com.  [David Finkle: Over a Cheever, Under a Cheever] Reference

He is on record now, and is really dictating to Cheever, who writes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crucible]

Italy is a theater in which Cheever could stage his inner conflicts.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Cheever's Cruel Paradoxes] Reference

Brooklyn Information had a listing for a J.L. Garland on Cheever Place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza]

DANFORTH, after thinking a moment, then going to Cheever: Give me the list.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crucible]

A poor student, Cheever attended Thayer Academy but was expelled for not studying.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Cheever's Cruel Paradoxes] Reference

Cheever was transferred as a writer to the former Paramount studios in Astoria, Queens.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Cheever's Cruel Paradoxes] Reference

In 1971 Cheever began to teach writing to inmates at the nearby prison of Sing Sing in Ossining.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Cheever's Cruel Paradoxes] Reference

Cheever himself told interviewers that he and his wife, Mary, had contemplated divorce for 40 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story He Told Himself] Reference

It gives Cheever fils a chance to send up Cheever pere, and aficionados a chance to play Name That Source.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son's Solution: Make Pop Art] Reference

He withdrew Cheever from his unit, which suffered terrible casualties in Europe in the last months of the war.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Cheever's Cruel Paradoxes] Reference

So by the time the journals began appearing in The New Yorker in 1990, Cheever had little privacy left to invade.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story He Told Himself] Reference

They are followed in by Cheever, who carries a dispatch case and a flat wooden box containing his writing materials.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crucible]

By 1972 the drinking had taken on such epic proportions that Cheever was writing only one story a year, more or less.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Cheever's Cruel Paradoxes] Reference

What was remarkable was that Cheever finally had the sobriety to think through a novel and sustain its unified design.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Cheever's Cruel Paradoxes] Reference

Cheever, working hard to support a wife, began to publish in the "slicks" such as Harper's Bazaar, Collier's, and Mademoiselle.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Cheever's Cruel Paradoxes] Reference

Cheever is sometimes discussed as a sociologist of the suburbs, but in fact a gold dust of fantasy touches everything he writes.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Cheever's Cruel Paradoxes] Reference

"What emerges," writes Cheever on reading some old journals, "are two astonishing contests, one with alcohol and one with my wife.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story He Told Himself] Reference

South, who has been formerly his master, will exert more influence over his vote than all the exhortations from Beecher or Cheever.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference

(“I keep reading biographies of Fitzgerald,” Cheever wrote in the sodden mid-60s, “and I always get to bawling at the end.”).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wizard of Westchester: Definitive Biography of John Cheever Tells a Dismal Tale] Reference

Reading a new biography of the author, James Wolcott taps into the turmoil behind country-club façades, including that of Cheever himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [April 2009 Table of Contents] Reference