1912 - 1982
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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Among writers, John Cheever ranks 2,647 out of 5,755. Before 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.
1885 - 1944
HPI: 52.80
Rank: 2,641
1954 - Present
HPI: 52.80
Rank: 2,642
1909 - 1983
HPI: 52.80
Rank: 2,643
1932 - 2014
HPI: 52.80
Rank: 2,644
1929 - 2009
HPI: 52.79
Rank: 2,645
1862 - 1911
HPI: 52.79
Rank: 2,646
1912 - 1982
HPI: 52.79
Rank: 2,647
1896 - 1966
HPI: 52.79
Rank: 2,648
1894 - 1943
HPI: 52.78
Rank: 2,649
1950 - 2020
HPI: 52.78
Rank: 2,650
1927 - 2007
HPI: 52.78
Rank: 2,651
1300 - Present
HPI: 52.77
Rank: 2,652
1943 - Present
HPI: 52.77
Rank: 2,653
Among people born in 1912, John Cheever ranks 141. Before 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 107. Before 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.
1912 - 1992
HPI: 53.39
Rank: 135
1912 - 1997
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 136
1912 - 2001
HPI: 53.32
Rank: 137
1912 - 1988
HPI: 53.28
Rank: 138
1912 - 2009
HPI: 53.04
Rank: 139
1912 - 1998
HPI: 52.79
Rank: 140
1912 - 1982
HPI: 52.79
Rank: 141
1912 - 1987
HPI: 52.70
Rank: 142
1912 - 1997
HPI: 52.65
Rank: 143
1912 - 1983
HPI: 52.56
Rank: 144
1912 - 1988
HPI: 52.55
Rank: 145
1912 - 2002
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 146
1912 - 2005
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 147
1895 - 1982
HPI: 53.28
Rank: 101
1896 - 1982
HPI: 53.28
Rank: 102
1906 - 1982
HPI: 53.10
Rank: 103
1920 - 1982
HPI: 53.07
Rank: 104
1905 - 1982
HPI: 52.94
Rank: 105
1895 - 1982
HPI: 52.83
Rank: 106
1912 - 1982
HPI: 52.79
Rank: 107
1884 - 1982
HPI: 52.68
Rank: 108
1903 - 1982
HPI: 52.52
Rank: 109
1896 - 1982
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 110
1933 - 1982
HPI: 52.31
Rank: 111
1936 - 1982
HPI: 51.90
Rank: 112
1919 - 1982
HPI: 51.89
Rank: 113
Among people born in United States, John Cheever ranks 3,459 out of 18,182. Before 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).
1892 - 1926
HPI: 52.81
Rank: 3,453
1959 - Present
HPI: 52.80
Rank: 3,454
1963 - Present
HPI: 52.80
Rank: 3,455
1829 - 1862
HPI: 52.80
Rank: 3,456
1929 - 1997
HPI: 52.80
Rank: 3,457
1943 - Present
HPI: 52.79
Rank: 3,458
1912 - 1982
HPI: 52.79
Rank: 3,459
1933 - Present
HPI: 52.78
Rank: 3,460
1969 - 2022
HPI: 52.78
Rank: 3,461
1945 - Present
HPI: 52.78
Rank: 3,462
1961 - 2023
HPI: 52.78
Rank: 3,463
1942 - 1995
HPI: 52.78
Rank: 3,464
1979 - Present
HPI: 52.77
Rank: 3,465
Among writers born in United States, John Cheever ranks 308. Before 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).
1937 - Present
HPI: 53.00
Rank: 302
1949 - Present
HPI: 53.00
Rank: 303
1925 - 2013
HPI: 52.95
Rank: 304
1905 - 1989
HPI: 52.92
Rank: 305
1958 - Present
HPI: 52.89
Rank: 306
1918 - 2006
HPI: 52.86
Rank: 307
1912 - 1982
HPI: 52.79
Rank: 308
1952 - 2021
HPI: 52.76
Rank: 309
1894 - 1945
HPI: 52.74
Rank: 310
1955 - Present
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 311
1942 - Present
HPI: 52.69
Rank: 312
1925 - 2000
HPI: 52.66
Rank: 313
1850 - 1898
HPI: 52.65
Rank: 314