Federico cheever biography

He was born on March 9, 1957, in Rome, Italy, to Mary Winternitz Cheever and John Cheever.
Federico Cheever was born on March 9, 1957, in Rome, Italy, to Mary Winternitz Cheever and John Cheever.
Federico Cheever | Britannica.

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On the one hand, Blake Bailey’s biography “Cheever: A Life” (Knopf; $35) is a triumph of thorough research and unblinkered appraisal—a seven-hundred-and-seventy-page labor of, if not love, faithful adherence. John Cheever, the author of five novels and of many—a hundred and twenty-one—of the most brilliant and memorable short stories this magazine has ever printed, died in 1982, at the age of seventy, and in the years since an unusually full and frank wealth of biographical material has accumulated: a memoiristic biography, “Home Before Dark” (1984), by his daughter, Susan; a collection of letters, edited and annotated by his son Benjamin (1988); a four-hundred-page biography by Scott Donaldson (1988); and, an embarrassment of riches and a richesse of embarrassment, the forty-three hundred pages, mostly typed single-space, of Cheever’s private journals, stored at Harvard’s Houghton Library and mined, by Robert Gottlieb, for six excerpts published in The New Yorker between August of 1990 and August of 1991. Bailey estimates himself to be one of possibly ten persons to have read

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Fred Cheever OBITUARY

Federico Cheever, 60, of Denver passed away on June 10, 2017, while on a raft trip with his family on the Green River in Northwestern Colorado. He was born on March 9, 1957, in Rome, Italy, to Mary Winternitz Cheever and John Cheever. Fred is survived by Mary McNeil Cheever, his wife of 35 years, his daughters Elizabeth and Laurel, sister Susan Cheever of New York City and brother Benjamin Cheever of Pleasantville, New York. Fred was a law professor at the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law for 24 years. After growing up in a literary family on the East Coast, he graduated with a B.A and M.A. from Stanford University and a J.D. from the UCLA Law School. After law school, Fred clerked with Judge Harry Pregerson of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Los Angeles. In 1987, he moved to Denver to work first for the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund (now Earthjustice) and then for the national law firm of Faegre and Benson. In 1993, he began teaching law at the University of Denver. Fred was a nationally recognized expert in environmental

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John Cheever

American novelist and short story writer (1912–1982)

John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American short story writer and novelist. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs".^[1]^[2] His fiction is mostly set on the Upper East Side of Manhattan; the Westchester suburbs; old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born; and Italy, especially Rome. His short stories included "The Enormous Radio", "Goodbye, My Brother", "The Five-Forty-Eight", "The Country Husband", and "The Swimmer", and he also wrote five novels: The Wapshot Chronicle (National Book Award, 1958),^[3]The Wapshot Scandal (William Dean Howells Medal, 1965), Bullet Park (1969), Falconer (1977) and a novella, Oh What a Paradise It Seems (1982).

His main themes include the duality of human nature: sometimes dramatized as the disparity between a character's decorous social persona and inner corruption, and sometimes as a conflict between two characters (often brothers) who em