Susan Cheever
Författare till American Bloomsbury
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Susan Cheever, the daughter of the great American writer John Cheever, is the author of nine previous books, including Home Before Dark, a best-selling memoir about her father, & the novel Looking for Work. She has written award-winning articles on parenting for New York Newsday & is a contributing visa mer writer to Architectural Digest. She teaches writing at Bennington College & Yale University & lives in New York. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Susan Cheever
A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation (1994) 32 exemplar
Work: A Story of Experience 1 exemplar
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- Vedertaget namn
- Cheever, Susan
- Födelsedag
- 1943-07-31
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- New York, New York, USA
- Bostadsorter
- New York, New York, USA
- Utbildning
- Brown University (BA|1965)
- Yrken
- author
novelist
university teacher - Relationer
- Cheever, John (father)
Cheever, Benjamin (brother)
Hinckle, Warren (husband-divorced)
Cowley, Robert (husband-divorced)
Cheever, Federico (brother) - Organisationer
- Authors Guild
Bennington College
The New School - Priser och utmärkelser
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1983)
L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award (1985)
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- 1,847
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- #13,932
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- 4.0
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Another is this: Cummings may have been a radical in his poetic style, yet he was a firm anti-communist, unlike so many of his fellow intellectuals. Friends returned from Russia with praise for what they had found there, but Cummings turned against Stalin and communism almost from the moment he entered Russia. Everyone there seemed afraid. Nobody seemed happy.
Cheever gives us plentiful examples of his poetry, often playful, sometimes angry, usually obscure, always thoughtful. These poems provide commentary on his life, from loving memories of his clergyman father to his late-in-life fondness for birds.
The poet had difficulties with women: two marriages, two divorces. He never married the love of his life, who stayed by him until the end, although she was jealous even of his own daughter.
His relationship with Nancy, his daughter, makes a wonderful story in itself, perhaps even worthy of a movie. Cummings knew her when she was a little girl, but then his ex-wife took her away to Ireland, changed her name and refused to tell her anything about her real father. Years later, after Nancy herself had become a poet, Cummings reentered her life, yet for a long time refused to tell her he was her father. Only after Nancy declared her love for him did he reveal the truth.
Like her father, John Cheever, Susan Cheever is an outstanding writer, as her other books such as American Bloomsbury, have shown. This is a fine, revealing biography, perhaps too brief to be definitive, but beautifully written.… (mer)