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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 1,383,007 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). John Cheever is the 2,647th most popular writer (down from 2,352nd in 2019), the 3,459th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,980th in 2019) and the 308th most popular American Writer.

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  • 36

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  • 2.81

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  • 4.65

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Cheever ranks 2,647 out of 5,755Before him are Liviu Rebreanu, László Krasznahorkai, Jerzy Andrzejewski, U. R. Ananthamurthy, Tayeb Salih, and Mirza Alakbar Sabir. After him are Heimito von Doderer, Yury Tynyanov, Ken Robinson, Marianne Fredriksson, Pseudo-Geber, and Michael Ondaatje.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, John Cheever ranks 141Before him are Rihei Sano, Martin Schwarzschild, Kristina Söderbaum, Charles Addams, Béla Király, and Kamala Sohonie. After him are Georges Franju, Lev Kopelev, Vladimir Bakarić, Hamengkubuwono IX, Günter Wand, and Andre Norton. Among people deceased in 1982, John Cheever ranks 107Before him are Jakov Gotovac, Anandamayi Ma, Virginia Hall, Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, Eduard Tubin, and Ngaio Marsh. After him are Helene Deutsch, Abba P. Lerner, Teinosuke Kinugasa, Christian Ferras, Gábor Szabó, and Igor Gouzenko.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Cheever ranks 3,459 out of 18,182Before him are Bessie Coleman (1892), John C. McGinley (1959), Randy Couture (1963), Ignacio Zaragoza (1829), David Doyle (1929), and Maceo Parker (1943). After him are Michael Dukakis (1933), Anne Heche (1969), Stephen Stills (1945), Tom Sizemore (1961), Jerry Garcia (1942), and Aaron Paul (1979).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, John Cheever ranks 308Before him are Lois Lowry (1937), Lois McMaster Bujold (1949), Elmore Leonard (1925), Robert Penn Warren (1905), Charlie Kaufman (1958), and Mickey Spillane (1918). After him are Bell hooks (1952), Jack Thayer (1894), Steve Berry (1955), Erica Jong (1942), Edward Gorey (1925), and Edward Bellamy (1850).