Cheever book is in top 10
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That’s the Top Ten from Publishers Weekly magazine, the definitive chronicler of the publishing industry.
This week, the magazine came out with its PW Top 10 for 2009 and first on the pile for nonfiction is Blake Bailey’s biography of John Cheever: “Cheever: a Life” (Knopf).
Cheever, a Pulitzer prize-winning short story writer and novelist, lived in Ossining from 1951 until his death in 1982, so this book has been very popular locally especially in Ossining. Cheever set many of his stories in the suburbs of Westchester and Connecticut. And widow Mary Cheever still lives in Ossining and their son Benjamin Cheever, a very talented writer in his own right, lives nearby as well.
The magazine’s editor describe the book as ” a delicious biography that could bring Cheever back into the literary firmament” and adds that “Bailey offers up juicy, appalling, hilarious and moving anecdotes with verve, sensitivity and perfect timing.”
In 2007, the Ossining Public Library named the reading room in its new building on Croton Avenue in Cheever’s honor.
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