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John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912, and he went to school at Thayer Academy in South Braintree. He is the author of seven collections of stories and five novels. His first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle, won the 1958 National Book Award. In 1965 he received the Howells Medal for Fiction from the National Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1978 he won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Shortly before his death in 1982 he was awarded the National Medal for Literature.One of the most compelling and intimate books you'll ever read
Independent
Beautifully written, lyrically spiritual, sexually candid memoirs
Mail on Sunday
Cheever's journals include the struggle for recognition, the problem-drinking and covert homosexuality of a public figure and, finally, cancer. His intelligence and honesty powerfully communicate the sense of life as an urgent predicament
Sunday Times
These diaries are so painfully personal...that they were not published until after his death. But they also concentrate the true essence of what made his short stories great
Sunday Express
John Cheever understood fallibility and that made for the greatness in his writing
The Times
In superb prose, Cheever records his alcoholism, homosexuality, life of frustration and anxiety, success and chaos. Agonising and unforgettable
Observer
Moving and very honest
Guardian
Will cause readers to give Cheever 'the respect and admiration' he deserves.
Contemporary Review