WRITER

John Cheever

1912 - 1982

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John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American short story writer and novelist. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan; the Westchester suburbs; old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born; and Italy, especially Rome. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Cheever has received more than 1,493,778 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). John Cheever is the 2,649th most popular writer (down from 2,639th in 2019), the 3,368th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,450th in 2019) and the 291st most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The stories of John Cheever
Social life and customs, Fiction, English Short stories
1978
Oh, what a paradise it seems
Fiction, Environmentalists, Older men
1982
The Wapshot scandal
Families, Fiction, Domestic fiction
1964
The Wapshot chronicle
Fiction, Fishing villages, National Book Award Winner
1957
Falconer
College teachers, Drug addicts, Fiction
1977
Bullet Park
Fiction, Violence, Families
1969

Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Cheever ranks 2,649 out of 7,302. Before him are Elio Vittorini, Jules Supervielle, Mustafa Kamil Pasha, Jules Guesde, Olga Rozanova, and Tom Sharpe. After him are Jean Rhys, Alda Merini, Àngel Guimerà, Mirra Alfassa, Stanko Vraz, and Polemon I of Pontus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, John Cheever ranks 148. Before him are Michele Andreolo, Roy Sullivan, Hamengkubuwono IX, Henry Armstrong, Ichiji Otani, and Melita Norwood. After him are Béla Király, Günter Wand, Jacques Bergier, Lev Kopelev, Naoto Tajima, and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump. Among people deceased in 1982, John Cheever ranks 108. Before him are David Frankfurter, Abba P. Lerner, Pavel Rotmistrov, Anandamayi Ma, Eduard Tubin, and Christian Ferras. After him are Riccardo Paletti, Khalid al-Islambouli, Hironori Ōtsuka, Georg Leibbrandt, Georg Konrad Morgen, and Albert Soboul.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Cheever ranks 3,368 out of 20,380. Before him are Jennifer Lee (1971), Kristen Stewart (1990), Jim Beaver (1950), Tony Danza (1951), Benjamin Bratt (1963), and John Leslie (1945). After him are Caspar Weinberger (1917), Amy Irving (1953), Pharrell Williams (1973), Amanda Seyfried (1985), Michael Stipe (1960), and William Goldman (1931).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, John Cheever ranks 291. Before him are Jim Thompson (1906), Terry Goodkind (1948), Neil Simon (1927), Orson Scott Card (1951), Eric Carle (1929), and Richard Bandler (1950). After him are William Goldman (1931), Michael Cunningham (1952), Harlan Ellison (1934), Alex Haley (1921), Horace McCoy (1897), and Robert M. Pirsig (1928).

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