(1) In late December, Jane Cheever brought his first granddaughter, two week old, to visit.

(2) But what about John Cheever?

(3) John Cheever, with a sociologist's shrewd and exquisite eyes, observes American society, especially the mid die class in New York and their ways of life.

(4) Before he died in 1982, Cheever was ranked third, behind Saul Bellow and John Updike, in a survey of living American writers whose work would live on for generations.

(5) John Cheever was one of the most prominent American short story writers in the twentieth century.

(6) John Cheever is a touching memoir, a critique which is full of penetrating judgment and deep insight, and a rare specimen of good writing as well.

(7) The time may have come, however, for a Cheever revival.

(8) John Cheever told me long ago that it was his readers who kept him going, people from every part of the country who had written to him.

(9) They are, if you like, the readers of Cheever, a crowd of them too large to be hidden in the woods.

(10) Yet, today, Cheever has largely been forgotten, left off academic reading lists and overlooked as an influence on subsequent writers.

(11) "The Stories of John Cheever", his acclaimed collection of short fiction, won the Pulitzer prize among other awards and went on to sell 125,000 copies in hardback.

(12) In 1976, Cheever received a false report that Updike had died and was moved to record the following tribute in his journal.

(13) "Senator Cheever has been keeping close tabs on the Arete case," Hensley replied.

(14) I think even Senator Cheever will be comfortable with the arrangement.

(15) I received a call from Dennis Spain, Chief of Staff to Senator William Cheever of New York. He mentioned you were coming.