Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK (AP) — Mary Cheever, an accomplished author and poet best known as the enduring spouse and widow of John Cheever, has ...

John Cheever and John Updike enjoyed an occasionally antagonistic relationship over the years—not long after they met, Cheever dreamt that Updike was trying to kill him—but their mutual admiration, ...

In “When All the Men Wore Hats,” Susan Cheever considers her father as a writer and a role model, recounting the stories behind his celebrated stories. By Alexandra Jacobs It’s not quite #MeToo, but a ...

John Cheever was inordinately fond of the word “inestimable”: It shows up twice in the brief preface to The Stories of John Cheever (1978), the best seller that pushed him at last to the top of the ...

Long before Don Draper, there was John Cheever. The master of the American short story was the original purveyor of midcentury mystique, especially its darker facets. The endless drinking, ...

In the fall of 1930, an 18-year-old John Cheever—a boy with a low voice and a “determined chin,” as editor Malcolm Cowley described him—appeared in the offices of The New Republic. Despite rarely ...

Mary Cheever died Monday at her Ossining home. OSSINING – Mary Cheever, widow of writer John Cheever, who chronicled mid-century suburban life, died Monday. She was 95. Her daughter, Susan Cheever, ...