Cheever

[chee-ver]

noun

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

Cheever

/ ˈtʃiːvə /

noun

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

Example Sentences

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

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Ms. Cheever began to understand that his stories came at least partly from the tension between his private feelings of shame and the effort to maintain his respectability as a literary grandee and paterfamilias.

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

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

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

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