Article: The Good Life: The Meaning of Success for the American Middle Class.

Article: John Cheever's "Hollywood problem".(Biography)
Harvard Review;  June 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... chased the eighteen-year-old Cheever around the halls of Craigie ... marriage in 1941, though, Cheever made a determined effort to ... impulses and lead a conventional middle-class life--for the most part ... approached the age of fifty, Cheever was an alcoholic who was so ...

Article: Reintroducing john cheever Masterful biography delves into ...
The Virginian Pilot;  April 26, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... had total access.) Cheever wrote conventional ... dark secrets of the middle class. In "The Enormous ... story betrays many of Cheever's own vices and ... insinuate myself into the middle class, like a spy," Cheever wrote in his journal ...

Article: Cheever, John
U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ...John Cheever Born: May 27, 1912Quincy ... author American writer John Cheever is best known for his keen ... critical, view of the American middle class. His stories are characterized ... Childhood and marriage John Cheever was born on May 27, 1912 ...

Article: John Cheever
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ...John Cheever John Cheever (1912-1982) was an American writer ... often critical, view of the American middle class. Known primarily for his short stories ... generally accepted."—John Cheever, in his journal, 1961. Only John ...

Article: John Cheever: The Bard Of the Suburbs
The Washington Post;  June 19, 1988 ;     700+ words ... ... smart and perceptive. He sees Cheever as a divided and conflicted ... s art was fashioned. If Cheever was, as is often said of him ... wanted out of life was what most middle-class Americans wanted: a comfortable ... desire and distance that gives Cheever's best writing its tension ...

Article: SUSAN CHEEVER'S ORDINARY WOMAN Profiling a generation of ...
The Boston Globe;  August 2, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... curtail my choices," says Cheever, "so the selection process ... demographic sleuthing led Cheever to a 47-year-old product of middle-class life in Passaic, N.J ... manufacturer and played Willy Loman, Cheever writes, to his wife Rita ...

Article: JOHN CHEEVER'S 'RADIANT MELANCHOLY'
The Boston Globe;  June 26, 1988 ;     700+ words ... ... been born during the war), Cheever would bid his family farewell ... countervailing winds that drove him. Cheever neither loathed nor patronized ... captured mid-century, upper-middle-class America as well and profoundly ... emphasis here is erratic. (Mary Cheever cooperated with the biographer ...