John Cheever's "Hollywood problem".(Biography)

Harvard Review | June 1, 2006| | Copyright

As a public figure, John Cheever cultivated the image of a genial country squire--a family man in Brooks Brothers clothes who lived in an eighteenth-century Dutch Colonial farmhouse near the Hudson, where he bred Labrador retrievers. His manners were impeccable, though he had a tendency to fidget and leave his sentences unfinished, trailing off into a quick elliptical laugh and sigh ("as jazz singers used to end a chorus with 'Oh yeass,'" said John Updike). Certainly Time magazine accepted the facade: for a cover story on Cheever in 1964, artist Henry Koerner painted the writer ...

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