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John Cheever
John Cheever 1912-82, American author, b. Quincy, Mass. His expulsion from Thayer Academy was the subject of his first short story, published by the New Republic when he was 17. With meticulously rendered detail, Cheever writes about life in the affluent American suburbs. Although his works are... Read more |
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John Strype
John Strype , 1643-1737, English ecclesiastical historian and biographer. A graduate of Cambridge, he took holy orders. Much of his early life was spent in collecting old charters, letters, and various documents, mostly of the Tudor period. Later he used these in his cumbersome but valuable works.... Read more |
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John Gibson Lockhart
John Gibson Lockhart 1794-1854, Scottish editor, lawyer, literary critic, and biographer; son-in-law and biographer of Sir Walter Scott. A major contributor to Blackwood's Magazine, he also was editor of and contributor to the Quarterly Review (1825-53). He became known as "The Scorpion" ... Read more |
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John Galt
John Galt 1779-1839, Scottish novelist. He went to Canada as secretary for the Canada Company, founding there in 1827 the town of Guelph and encouraging Canadian immigration. He wrote poems, blank-verse tragedies, and travel books, but he is known chiefly for his novels of Scottish country life,... Read more |
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John Middleton Murry
John Middleton Murry 1889-1957, English critic and editor. In 1919 he became editor of the Athenaeum and in 1923 founded his own review, the Adelphi, with which he was associated until 1948. He was friendly with many literary personalities, notably T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, and Virginia... Read more |
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John George Nicolay
John George Nicolay , 1832-1901, biographer of Lincoln, b. Bavaria. In 1837 he was brought to the United States, and his family settled in Pike co., Ill. He worked on the Pittsfield, Ill., Free Press and was its editor and owner from 1854 to 1856. In 1860 he and his close friend, John Hay, became... Read more |
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Douglas Southall Freeman
Douglas Southall Freeman , 1886-1953, American editor and historian, b. Lynchburg, Va. He was editor of the Richmond News Leader from 1915 to 1949, when he retired to devote most of his time to historical writing. An authority on military strategy and on the military history of the Civil War,... Read more |
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John Buchan 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir , 1875-1940, Scottish author and statesman. Included among his works are a history (4 vol., 1921-22) of World War I; biographies of Julius Caesar (1932), Scott (1932), and Cromwell (1934); short stories, essays, and poetry; and adventure novels, including The... Read more |
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John Owen
John Owen 1616-83, English Puritan divine and theologian. In the civil war Owen supported the parliamentary cause. Oliver Cromwell took him as chaplain to Ireland and Scotland and had him appointed (1651) dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and vice chancellor (1652) of the university. He lost his posts... Read more |
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John Addington Symonds
John Addington Symonds , 1840-93, English author. Educated at Harrow and Oxford, constant ill health exiled him for the greater part of his life to Italy and Switzerland. His many writings include travel books, Sketches in Italy and Greece (1874) and Italian Byways (1883); literary essays, ... Read more |
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Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism and Letters
...history, and American biography. The will empowered...The Yearling1940— John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath1941...Journey in the Dark1945— John Hersey, A Bell for Adano1946...McPherson, Elbow Room1979— John Cheever, The Stories of ... |
 "The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)")
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An Alcott biography that reads like a novel ; Storytelling lifts Cheever's...
...writes Susan Cheever in "Louisa...A Personal Biography." Substituting biographies for novels...for writing a biography of a popular...perspective, like John Matteson, whose...story well, as Cheever does here...A Personal ... |
 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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A shared experience; BIOGRAPHY Susan Cheever can relate to Louisa May...
...has written an engaging biography of Louisa May Alcott...preface that details Cheever's own fascination with...like Susan Sontag and Cheever herself. The book...There is nothing new in Cheever's biography -- after...famous American writer, ... |
 "The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)")
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bailey again honored for John cheever biography.(Daily Break)
...of Arts and Letters for his biography of short-story master and novelist John Cheever. The honor, for oexceptional...published in 2003. How do Cheever, Jackson and Yates tie together...story master and novelist John Cheever. |
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John Cheever: A Biography.
...Memoir of John Cheever. By Susan Cheever. Houghton Mifflin 243 pp. $15.95 JOHN CHEEVER: A Biography. By Scott Donaldson, Random House. 416 pp. $22.50 John Cheever's life was not as it ... |
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Reintroducing john cheever Masterful biography delves into author's...
...Johnston The New York Times Blake Bailey's "Cheever: A Life" opens with a reference to the time John Cheever emerged, presumably drunk and definitely...a winter evening when he was to accompany John Updike to the symphony. His books were out... |
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John Cheever's "Hollywood problem".(Biography)
As a public figure, John Cheever cultivated the image of a genial country...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 New York Observer (New York, NY)")
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The Wizard of Westchester: Definitive Biography of John Cheever Tells a...
Cheever By Blake Bailey Alfred A. Knopf, 770 pages, $35 John Cheever was inordinately fond of the word "inestimable...in the brief preface to The Stories of John Cheever (1978), the best seller that pushed... |
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A MASSIVE NEW BIOGRAPHY MAY REIGNITE INTEREST IN JOHN CHEEVER.(What's Happening)
...Blake Bailey published his massive biography of the long-overlooked literary...more fame than Yates ever knew - John Cheever - in "Cheever: A Life" (Alfred A. Knopf, 679...Main St.; 206-624-6600. - John Marshall |
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John Cheever: The Bard Of the Suburbs
...six years since John Cheever's death, which...the first full biography of the author...two previous biographies: By Force of...the first major Cheever biography he seems to feel...the result that John ... |
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CHEEVER'S KEEPER BIOGRAPHER BLAKE BAILEY HAS FOUND A SPECIALTY: BOSTON'S...
...after his widely praised 2003 biography of Richard Yates and with a new contract to write the life of John Cheever - two of Boston's literary legends...s enthusiasm led her husband, John Cheever's son, Ben, to suggest that... |
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