id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4279 John Cheever - Wikipedia .html text/html 5482 596 77 John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American novelist and short story writer. A compilation of his short stories, The Stories of John Cheever, won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and a National Book Critics Circle Award, and its first paperback edition won a 1981 National Book Award.[4][a] An early draft of "The Day the Pig Fell into the Well"—a long story with elaborate Chekhovian nuances, meant to "operate something like a rondo", as Cheever wrote to his friend and New Yorker editor William Maxwell—was completed in 1949, though the magazine did not make space for it until five years later. Bullet Park was published in 1969, and received a devastating review from Benjamin DeMott on the front page of The New York Times Book Review: "John Cheever's short stories are and will remain lovely birds... ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4279.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4279.txt