Susan Cheever

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Susan Cheever
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Susan Cheever

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OccupationWriter: memoirist
Genrenonfiction, memoir
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  • Home Before Dark

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Susan Cheever (born July 31, 1943) is an American author[1] and a prize-winning best-selling writer well known for her memoir, her writing about alcoholism, and her intimate understanding of American history. She is a recipient of the PEN New England Award. She currently teaches in the MFA program at The New School in New York City.

Biography

Cheever is the daughter of novelist John Cheever and poet/teacher Mary Cheever.[2] She has two brothers, Benjamin Cheever and the late Federico Cheever.[3] Cheever has been married three times and divorced twice.[4] Cheever married Robert Cowley, the son of Malcolm Cowley, in 1967. The couple divorced 8 years later.[5] Cheever's second husband was Calvin Tomkins, II, whom she married in 1981. Cheever and Tomkins have a daughter Sarah.[6] Cheever married her third husband, Warren James Hinckle III, in 1989.[7] Cheever and Hinckle have a son, Warren Hinckle IV, who was born in November 1989.[7][8]

Career

Cheever's 2025 book, When All the Men Wore Hats (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), investigates the roots of her father's stories, the relationship between truth and fiction, and the secret lives that lie behind the page. Advance reviews have called it "an eloquent and fully immersive portrait of a renowned author"[9] and "remarkable... sui generis... [an] illuminating book."[10]

Cheever's book Drinking in America: Our Secret History was published in 2015. The book chronicles how alcohol has influenced the history of the United States.[11] Her other books include My Name is Bill - Bill Wilson: His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous, a biography of Alcoholics Anonymous cofounder Bill Wilson; Home Before Dark, a memoir about her father, novelist John Cheever; Treetops: A Memoir; and five novels: Looking for Work, A Handsome Man, The Cage, Doctors and Women, and Elizabeth Cole. Her essay "Baby Battle," in which she describes immersion in early motherhood and subsequent phases of letting go of her primary identity as a mother, was included in the 2006 anthology Mommy Wars by Leslie Morgan Steiner. Her most recent biography, E.E. Cummings: A Life was reviewed in The New York Times,[12] The New Yorker,[13] and was selected as one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist ("With boundless new detail gathered through meticulous research, Susan Cheever succeeds where most other biographers have failed....")[14] and The San Francisco Chronicle.[15]

Cheever is the author of American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work, published in December 2006. Cheever was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1983. She graduated from Brown University in 1965 and studied American Literature at New York University. She is also a member of the Corporation of Yaddo and serves on the Author's Guild Council. In addition to working on her books, she teaches in the Bennington College M.F.A. program and at The New School.

Cheever is the author of Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction, which was published in 2008.[4]

Awards and honors

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Bibliography

  • Looking For Work (1979)
  • A Handsome Man (1981)
  • The Cage (1982)
  • Home Before Dark (1984)
  • Doctors & Women (1987)
  • Elizabeth Cole (1989)
  • Treetops: A Memoir About Raising Wonderful Children in an Imperfect World (1991)
  • A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extroardinary Generation (1994)
  • Jrnls John Cheever #1 (1995)
  • Note Found in a Bottle (1999)
  • My Name is Bill: Bill Wilson-- His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous (2004)
  • American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau - Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work (2006)
  • Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction (2008)
  • Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography (2010)
  • E.E. Cummings: A Life (2014)
  • Drinking in America: Our Secret History (2016)
  • When All the Men Wore Hats (2025)

References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Susan Cheever". PBS. Archived from the original on January 26, 2012. Retrieved October 8, 2012.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Mary Cheever, a Central Figure in a Literary Family, Dies at 95". New York Times. April 9, 2014.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Frederico Cheever obituary".
  4. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."A Writer Alone at Last". New York Times. October 24, 2008. Retrieved October 8, 2012.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Smilgis, Martha (February 4, 1980). "The Daughter Also Rises: Susan Cheever Writes a Novel That Makes Father John Proud". People. Archived from the original on May 5, 2014. Retrieved January 6, 2023.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hodgman, Ann (June 10, 2001). "Quality Time". New York Times. Retrieved October 8, 2012.
  7. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Mitford, Jessica (October 4, 1992). "Standing and delivery: From total immersion to drug cocktails, from birthing stools to the 'Empathy Belly', there are more fashions in childbirth than in hemlines". The Independent. Archived from the original on September 23, 2009. Retrieved October 8, 2012.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Boulware, Jack (February 14, 1996). "Hinckle, Hinckle, Little Star (Part II)". San Francisco Weekly. Retrieved October 8, 2012.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.WHEN ALL THE MEN WORE HATS | Kirkus Reviews.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Gilbert, Ellen (August 1, 2025). "When All the Men Wore Hats: Susan Cheever on the Stories of John Cheever".
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Italie, Leanne (October 14, 2015). "Susan Cheever chronicles drinking in America in new book". Seattle Times. Associated Press. Retrieved October 16, 2015.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fried, Daisy (April 18, 2014). "Lives of the Poets". The New York Times. Retrieved January 19, 2015.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Paul Muldoon -- Charles Wright In The New Yorker". The New Yorker. Retrieved January 19, 2015.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Books of the Year". The Economist. Retrieved January 19, 2015.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Best of 2014". sfgate.com. December 24, 2014. Retrieved January 19, 2015.

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