![]() ![]() The inside story describes the writer’s idyllic life with his wife Mary and three children in a beautiful house. In 1964 Time magazine put him on its cover – an accolade that brought coast-to-coast fame back then zealously alliterative, it dubbed him “Ovid in Ossining”, after the town in New York state where he lived for many decades. His literary reputation grew slowly, until in 1958 he won the National Book Award for his first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle. ![]() He published his first short story in the New Yorker in 1935, at the age of 22, the start of a lifelong association with the magazine. ![]() One version: John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912. ![]()
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