Alter | 114 Jahre |
Beruf | Romancier, Schriftsteller |
Geburtsdatum | Montag, 27. Mai 1912 |
Geburtsort | Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Todesort | Ossining_(village),_New_York |
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Beschreibung | John William Cheever (* 27. Mai 1912; † 18. Juni 1982) war ein US-amerikanischer Kurzgeschichtenschreiber und Romancier. Er wird gelegentlich als „der Tschechow der Vorstädte“ bezeichnet. Seine Werke spielen vorwiegend am Upper East Side von Manhattan, in den Vororten von Westchester County, in alten New England Dörfern, die auf verschiedenen Orten an der South Shore rund um Quincy, Massachusetts, basieren (sein Geburtsort), und in Italien, insbesondere in Rom. Zu seinen Kurzgeschichten gehören unter anderem "The Enormous Radio", "Goodbye, My Brother", "The Five-Forty-Eight", "The Country Husband" und "The Swimmer". Er verfasste außerdem fünf Romane: The Wapshot Chronicle (National Book Award, 1958), The Wapshot Scandal (William Dean Howells Medal, 1965), Bullet Park (1969), Falconer (1977) und eine Novelle Oh What a Paradise It Seems (1982). |
Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.
It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
