John Cheever (60 page)

L
OWELL VS
. A
MES:
Interview Elizabeth Logan, 2 July 1984; Elinor Langer, J
OSEPHINE
H
ERBST
(Boston, 1984), pp. 270–71; Ian Hamilton, R
OBERT
L
OWELL
(New York, 1982), pp. 142–52; Eleanor Clark et al., “Statement to the Board of Directors of Yaddo” and letter to former Yaddo guests asking their support of Ames, both 21 March 1949; interview Robert Penn Warren and Eleanor Clark, 10 July 1984.

G
UGGENHEIM:
JC to Guggenheim foundation, 13 November 1950; Malcolm Cowley to Henry Allen Moe, 13 December 1950.

SCARBOROUGH

L
EAVING
N
EW
Y
ORK:
Interview Margot Wilkie, 25 June 1984; interview Allan Gurganus, 16 September 1984; JC, F
ALCONER
, pp. 50–51; interview William Maxwell, 9 April 1985; William Maxwell to SD, 10 April 1985; JC, “Moving Out,” E
SQUIRE
, July 1960, pp. 67–68; JC to Josephine Herbst, May 1951; JC, “The Journal of a Writer with a Hole in One Sock,” R
EPORTER
, 29 December 1955, p. 26; JC, “Where New York Children Play,” H
OLIDAY
, August 1951, pp. 46–47, 86–89.

C
ITY VS
. C
OUNTRY:
JC to Don and Katrina Ettlinger, 1946; JC to Josephine Herbst, 30 July 1950, MC to SD, 15 June 1985; JC, “Moving Out,” pp. 67–68.

B
EECHWOOD AMBIENCE:
E. J. Kahn, Jr.,
ABOUT THE
“N
EW
Y
ORKER” AND
M
E
(New York, 1979), pp. 244–45; interview Dudley Schoales, 25 June 1984; Susan Cheever, H
OME
B
EFORE
D
ARK
, pp. 81–85; interview MC, 7 November 1983; interview Edward Newhouse, 5 June 1984; JC to Malcolm Cowley, 28 January 1951; John D. Weaver, “Reminiscences,” p. 3; JC to Josephine Herbst, 8 June 1951; interview Virginia Rice Kahn, 5 June 1985; interview Federico Cheever, 10 February 1985.

S
UBURBIA
, S
USAN
, B
EN:
A. C. Spectorsky, T
HE
E
XURBANITES
(Philadelphia, 1955), pp. 91–107; JC to Josephine Herbst, November 1951; JC, “Hole in One Sock,” p. 25; interview Margot Wilkie, 25 June 1984; JC to William Maxwell, 1953.

D
RINKING, PARTIES:
Interview Virginia Rice Kahn, 5 June 1985; interview Philip and Mimi Boyer, 8–9 July 1984; interview MC, 26 June 1984; JC to Eleanor Clark, 195__; interview Jane Cheever Carr, 27 September 1983; JC to Josephine Herbst, 29 December 1953; JC to Allan Gurganus, 24 February 1974; interview E. J. Kahn, Jr., 10 June 1984.

M
USIC
,
FIRE DEPARTMENT, SCHOOL:
Mimi Boyer to SD, May 1984; JC to Josephine Herbst, 26 January 1955 and early 1956; interview Don and Ginger Reiman, 3 July 1984; E. J. Kahn, Jr., “N
EW
Y
ORKER
”
AND
M
E
, pp. 160–61; Arthur Spear to SD, 16 December 1983; JC, B
ULLET
P
ARK
(New York, 1969), pp. 225–28; interview Aline Benjamin, 5 July 1984; JC to Malcolm Cowley, early 1953.

M
RS
. V
ANDERLIP:
JC to William Maxwell, 1958; interview Dudley Schoales, 25 June 1984; interview E. J. Kahn, Jr., 10 June 1984; JC, typescript 21; JC to Eleanor Clark, 4 November 1953.

Z
INNY
S
CHOALES:
Interview Dudley Schoales, 25 June 1984; interview Dudley Schoales, Jr., 17 July 1984; interview Robert Cowley, 20 June 1984; Susan Cheever, H
OME
B
EFORE
D
ARK
, pp. 86–87.

A
MBIVALENCE ABOUT SUBURBIA:
JC to Josephine Herbst, 17 July 1951; JC to Eleanor Clark, 3 July 1952; JC to Malcolm Cowley, 12 January 1953, 8 February 1953, and 1 November 1953; Malcolm Cowley to JC, 22 January 1953 and 11 February 1953; JC to Josephine Herbst, late summer 1953; JC to Eleanor Clark, late 1953; JC to Josephine Herbst, 195__; interview Barrett and Jane Clark, 28 June 1984; interview MC, 26 July 1984; JC, “Moving Out,” pp. 67–68.

CAREER

S
TORY VS. NOVEL:
Callaway, interview with JC, 15 October 1981; JC, typescript 21; Harvey Breit, “In and Out of Books,” N
EW
Y
ORK
T
IMES
B
OOK
R
EVIEW
, 10 May 1953, p. 8; JC quoted in Elizabeth Janeway et al., “Is the Short Story Necessary?” S
HORT
S
TORY
T
HEORIES
(Athens, Ohio, 1976), pp. 96–97.

R
ANDOM
H
OUSE TURNDOWNS:
Robert N. Linscott to JC, 7 June 1951; JC to Josephine Herbst, fall 1951 and spring 1952; interview William Maxwell, 9 November 1983; JC to Candida Donadio, January 1965.

L
IFE WITH
F
ATHER
,
TELEVISION:
“Life with Father and Mother,” CBS press release, 13 November 1952; interview Ezra Stone, 11 October 1985; JC, “Don't Leave the Room During the Commercials,” TV G
UIDE,
9 January 1982, p. 20.

E
NORMOUS
R
ADIO
, N
EW
Y
ORKER
TARBRUSH:
JC to Malcolm Cowley, 29 December 1952; George Garrett, “John Cheever and the Charms of Innocence: The Craft of T
HE
W
APSHOT
S
CANDAL
,” H
OLLINS
C
RITIC
, April 1964, pp. 3–4; interview Richard Stern, 23 April 1985; interview Norman Mailer, 29 March 1985; interview William Maxwell, 9 April 1985; Kees, “Cheever's Stories,” pp. 516–17; Taliaferro Boatwright, “Snapshots in the East Fifties,” N
EW
Y
ORK
H
ERALD
T
RIBUNE
, 24 May 1953, p. 16; Arthur Mizener, “In Genteel Traditions,” N
EW
R
EPUBLIC
, 25 May 1953, pp. 19–20; William DuBois, “Books of the Times,” N
EW
Y
ORK
T
IMES
, 1 May 1953; James Kelly, “The Have-Not-Enoughs,” N
EW
Y
ORK
T
IMES
B
OOK
R
EVIEW
, 10 May 1953, p. 21; Morris Freedman, “New England and Hollywood,” C
OMMENTARY
, October 1953, pp. 390, 392; dust-jacket copy, British edition of T
HE
E
NORMOUS
R
ADIO;
JC to Josephine Herbst, spring 1953; Malcolm Cowley to JC, 29 March 1952 and 27 April 1953; JC to Malcolm Cowley, April 1953.

“G
OODBYE
, M
Y
B
ROTHER
,” F
RED:
JC, “Goodbye, My Brother,” E
NORMOUS
R
ADIO
, pp. 3–27; Malcolm Cowley to JC, 22 January 1953; JC to Malcolm Cowley, 8 February 1953; interview JC, August 1977; interview MC, 20 October 1984; interview Virginia Rice Kahn, 5 June 1985; interview E. J. Kahn, Jr., 10 June 1984; interview Ben Cheever, 19 October 1984; interview Edward Newhouse, 5 June 1984; Susan Cheever Cowley and John Cheever, “A Duet,” p. 69.

“T
HE
C
OUNTRY
H
USBAND
,” N
ABOKOV:
JC, “The Country Husband,” E
NORMOUS
R
ADIO
, pp. 49–83; Vladimir Nabokov, “Inspiration,” S
ATURDAY
R
EVIEW OF THE
A
RTS
, 1 January 1973, p. 32.

M
C
C
ARTHY
, H
ERBST:
Langer, H
ERBST
, pp. 294–95, 360–61; JC to Josephine Herbst, 1954 (two letters).

B
ARNARD, TEACHING:
JC to William Maxwell, 1955; David Robertson to SD, 23 March 1985; interview MC, 12 July 1984; interview Judith Sherwin, 18 January 1985.

H
EALTH PROBLEMS:
Interview Dr. Raymond Mutter, 22 June 1984; interview Aline Benjamin, 5 July 1984; JC (“Cassie”) to Philip and Mimi Boyer, 1954; Dr. Bernard C. Glueck to SD, 11 March 1985; JC to William Maxwell, 1955; JC to Josephine Herbst, 1955; JC to Eleanor Clark, 24 June 1955; Susan Cheever, H
OME
B
EFORE
D
ARK
, p. 167.

C
HRONICLE SOLD:
Interview Simon Michael Bessie, 6 June 1984; Random House memo, Tony Wimpfheimer to Bennett Cerf, 21 January 1965.

ITALY

A
WARDS, MOTHER
'
S DEATH:
Benjamin Franklin award, N
EW
Y
ORK
T
IMES
, 29 May 1955; O. Henry award, N
EW
Y
ORK
T
IMES
, 4 January 1956; JC to Josephine Herbst, 18 May 1955 and 22 February 1956; Robb, “Cheever's Story,” p. 12; interview Jane Cheever Carr, 27 September 1983; JC, typescript 21; Susan Cheever, H
OME
B
EFORE
D
ARK
, p. 6; Smithers Center notes, 10 April 1975.

W
APSHOT NOVEL
, I
NSTITUTE:
JC to Josephine Herbst, summer 1954; Malcolm Cowley, citation, 23 May 1956; JC to Elizabeth Ames, 1956; JC to Eleanor Clark, 26 June 1956; MC to Malcolm Cowley, 4 October 1982.

F
RIENDSHIP, SUMMER PLACES:
JC to William Maxwell, 1955, summer 1956 (three letters), 1961; JC to Josephine Herbst, 26 June 1956; JC to Jean Stafford, 26 June 1956.

M
EETING
B
ESSIE:
Reminiscences of Simon Michael Bessie, Oral History Research office, Columbia, pp. 82–84.

P
REPARING FOR
I
TALY, TRIP ACROSS:
Stephen Becker to SD, 30 April 1985; JC to Eleanor Clark, 3 October 1956; JC to William Maxwell, October 1956; JC, “Atlantic Crossing,” Ex Ophidia, 1986.

P
ALAZZO
D
ORIA
, I
OLE:
Interview Peter and Ebie Blume, 12 June 1984; JC to William Maxwell, 5 November 1956, 10 November 1956, 12 November 1956, 24 November 1956, and 7 December 1956; JC to Philip and Mimi Boyer, 17 November 1956; JC to Josephine Herbst, 4 January 1957; JC to Malcolm Cowley, 7 January 1957; Elizabeth Spencer to SD, 11 December 1985 and 17 January 1986.

R
OMAN SOCIETY, LANGUAGE, SCHOOLS:
JC to Josephine Herbst, 24 November 1956 and 2 December 1956; JC to Malcolm Cowley, 25 November 1956; Weaver, “Reminiscences,” p. 3; Susan Cheever, H
OME
B
EFORE
D
ARK
, pp. 109–10; interview MC, 2 June 1984; JC to Francis Steegmuller, 13 June 1957; Elizabeth Spencer to SD, 11 December 1985; tape recording, Ben and Susan Cheever, n.d.; JC to Philip and Mimi Boyer, 17 November 1956; JC to Mary Dirks, 17 December 1956; Stephen Becker to SD, 30 April 1985; interview Peter and Ebie Blume, 12 June 1984.

S
TORIES WITH
S
TAFFORD ET AL.:
JC to Jean Stafford, July 1955 and 24 July 1956; interview William Maxwell, 9 April 1985; JC, Author's Note, S
TORIES
(New York, 1956), unpaginated; Richard Sullivan, “A Talented Quartet,” N
EW
Y
ORK
T
IMES
B
OOK
R
EVIEW
, 23 December 1956, p. 10; William Peden, “Four Cameos,” S
ATURDAY
R
EVIEW OF
L
ITERATURE
, 8 December 1956, pp. 15–16.

E
LECTION TO
I
NSTITUTE:
Jacques Barzun, nomination to institute, 1956; Louise Bogan to JC, 21 January 1957; Malcolm Cowley to JC, 23 February 1957; Susan Cheever, “Remembering John Cheever,” N
EW
Y
ORK
T
IMES
B
OOK
R
EVIEW
, 9 September 1984, p. 51; JC to Felicia Geffen, 9 October 1957; JC, file at American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

P
ROTECTING REPUTATION:
Interview Simon Michael Bessie, 6 June 1984; JC, correspondence with Curtis Brown, 1956–57.

B
IRTH OF
F
EDERICO:
JC to William and Emmy Maxwell, 22 March 1957, 4 April 1957, 5 April 1957, and late April 1957; JC to Robert Penn Warren and Eleanor Clark, 29 February 1957, 9 March 1957, and 28 March 1957; JC to Josephine Herbst, 17 March 1958; interview Peter and Ebie Blume, 12 June 1984; interviews MC, 28 June 1984 and 20 October 1984; interview Ben Cheever, 19 October 1984.

W
APSHOT
C
HRONICLE:
JC to Malcolm Cowley, 26 February 1957; JC to William Maxwell, 22 March 1957; William Esty, “Out of an Abundant Love of Created Things,” C
OMMONWEAL
, 17 May 1957, p. 187; Joan Didion, “A Celebration of Life,” N
ATIONAL
R
EVIEW
, 22 April 1961, p. 255; Richard Rupp, “John Cheever: The Upshot of Wapshot,” C
ELEBRATION IN
M
ODERN
A
MERICAN
F
ICTION
(Coral Gables, Fla., 1970), p. 31; Maxwell Geismar, “End of the Line,” N
EW
Y
ORK
T
IMES
B
OOK
R
EVIEW
, 24 March 1957, p. 5; Donald Malcolm, “John Cheever's Photograph Album,” N
EW
R
EPUBLIC
, 3 June 1957, pp. 17–18; JC, Introduction, C
HRONICLE
(T
IME
Reading Program special edition, 1965), p. xviii; JC to Granville Hicks, 10 April 1957; JC to Frederick Bracher, 15 July 1962; Carlos Baker, “Yankee Gallimaufry,” S
ATURDAY
R
EVIEW OF
L
ITERATURE
, 23 March 1957, p. 14; Coates, dissertation, pp. 54–56; Malcolm Cowley, “Novelist's Life,” pp. 4–5; JC, “Independence Day at St. Botolph's,” N
EW
Y
ORKER
, 3 July 1954, pp. 18–23; interview Jane Cheever Carr, 27 September 1983; Jo Brans, “Stories to Comprehend,” p. 340; interview Stephen Becker, 26 March 1986; “Quincy Son's First Novel Wins National Book Prize,” Q
UINCY
P
ATRIOT
-L
EDGER
, 12 March 1958; interview William Maxwell, 9 April 1985; interview Francis Steegmuller, 17 January 1985.