NEW YORK — Mary Cheever, an accomplished author and poet best known as the enduring spouse and widow of John Cheever, has died, surviving by decades a husband who used their lonely, but lasting ...

John Cheever’s respect for what he assumes would be the wishes of the dead author, from his 1977 essay “The Melancholy of Distance,” are more than puckish -- rarely has an important writer ...

The book at the top of the stack on her desk is How to Disappear, by Akiko Busch. Comments, questions, typos? Reply to this email to reach the Books Briefing team.

That’s the gist of Blake Bailey’s impressive new biography of author John Cheever. “Cheever: A Life” is finely written, admirably paced — and all too informative. It depicts a homophobe ...

As numerous books about the author later revealed, however, John Cheever was the least contented of men, an alcoholic who carried on desperate affairs with men and women, including actress Hope Lange.

Cheever has been an admirer of Alcott and her Little Women since she was a girl. She recalls in this book how she and her father, John Cheever , visited Orchard House in Concord, Mass., where ...

Author Susan Cheever, 72, teaches nonfiction writing at New York’s New School and at Bennington College in Vermont. She is author of 15 books, most recently “Drinking in America: Our Secret ...

Mary Cheever, an author and poet best known as the enduring spouse and widow of John Cheever, has died, surviving by decades a husband who used their lonely but lasting marriage as an inspiration ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Mary Cheever, an accomplished author and poet best known as the enduring spouse and widow of John Cheever, has died, surviving by decades a husband who used their lonely, but ...