Noun
United States writer of novels and short stories (1912-1982)
Source: WordNetAll of this is true enough; John Cheever, in his journals, lamented that, alongside Bellow's fiction, his stories seemed like mere suburban splinters. Source: Internet
‘‘Daddy Longlegs of the Evening’’ is something of a hoot, as if John Cheever had been a writer back in the ’40s and invented Spider-Man to boot. Source: Internet
He stocked the nation’s oldest creative writing program with big-name teaching talent, including John Cheever, Gail Godwin, Raymond Carver, Frederick Exley, and Leggett’s eventual successor, Frank Conroy. Source: Internet
He reminds me of a mixture of Henry James and John Cheever, with a healthy dollop of Kafka. Source: Internet