Cheever

American  

[chee-ver] / ˈtʃi vər /

noun

1. John, 1912–82, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.

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Cheever British  

/ ˈtʃiːvə /

noun

1. John. 1912–82, US novelist and short-story writer. His novels include The Wapshot Chronicle (1957) and Bullet Park (1969)

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Example Sentences

Susan Cheever reads her father’s short stories and reconsiders her memories of him as parent and artist.

From The Wall Street Journal

More than 100 of Cheever’s stories appeared in the New Yorker from the 1940s into the 1980s, making him a sort of ambassador for that magazine’s brand of polished, elliptical fiction.

From The Wall Street Journal

Years later, Susan Cheever, writing in The Times, called it “a scream of marital rage.”

From New York Times

“Being embraced and sustained by the light-green water,” Cheever writes, “seemed not as much a pleasure as the resumption of a natural condition.”

From Los Angeles Times

Unaccountably, the actress is given the name Julia Cheever, a herring so far past red it’s bleeding.

From New York Times