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T
RAVELING
, L
A
R
OCCA:
JC to William Maxwell, summer 1957 (seven letters); JC to Malcolm Cowley, 14 June 1957; JC to Arthur Spear, 15 June 1957; JC to Peter and Ebie Blume, 24 June 1957 and July 1957; interview Robert Penn Warren and Eleanor Clark, 10 July 1984; JC, typescript 21; interview Iole Masullo, 23 June 1984.

L
URE OF
I
TALY
, T
ASSO:
Baumann, “At Home,” p. 15; interview MC, 6 June 1983; Augustus J. C. Hare, W
ALKS IN
R
OME
(London, 1909), pp. 644–48; C. F. Brand, T
ORQUATO
T
ASSO:
A S
TUDY OF THE
P
OET
(Cambridge, 1965); interview Peter and Ebie Blume, 12 June 1984; Peter Blume to SD, 18 April 1986.

F
IGURE OF IMPORTANCE,
NBA: JC to Morton Dauwen Zabel, 25 January 1958; JC to Cabell Greet, 6 October 1958; JC to William Maxwell, fall 1958; JC, acceptance remarks, National Book Award ceremony, 11 March 1958; interview Bernard Malamud, 18 January 1985; Brans, “Stories to Comprehend,” p. 338.

H
OUSEBREAKER
,
SUBURBIA:
JC, T
HE
H
OUSEBREAKER OF
S
HADY
H
ILL AND
O
THER
S
TORIES
(New York, 1958); JC, “Don't Leave the Room,” p. 20; Richard Gilman, “Dante of Suburbia,” C
OMMONWEAL
, 15 December 1958, p. 320; Irving Howe, “Realities and Fictions,” P
ARTISAN
R
EVIEW
, 1959, pp. 130–31.

I
TALIAN STORIES
, I
OLE:
JC, “The Bella Lingua” and “Clementina,” T
HE
B
RIGADIER AND THE
G
OLF
W
IDOW
(New York, 1964), pp. 106–32, 133–55; SD, “Americans in Italy: The Clash of Cultures in John Cheever's Stories,” L
ETTURE ANGLO-AMERICANE IN MEMORIA DI
R
OLANDO
A
NZILOTTI
(Pisa, 1986), pp. 113–26; interview Iole Masullo, 23 June 1984; interview Dudley Schoales, 25 June 1984; JC to William Maxwell, 16 July 1958; JC to Morton Dauwen Zabel, 9 February 1959.

Y
ADDO
, S
ARATOGA:
Interview MC, 7 November 1983; interview Allan Gurganus, 16 September 1984; interview Pauline Hanson, 17 October 1984; JC to Morton Dauwen Zabel, 9 February 1959; JC to William Maxwell, 1960; JC, typescript 21; JC to Josephine Herbst, fall 1957 and winter 1958; JC to Malcolm Cowley, 1960; Susan Cheever, H
OME
B
EFORE
D
ARK
, pp. 33–35.

W
INTER'S DEATH
, E
UROPE:
JC quoted in Susan Cheever, H
OME
B
EFORE
D
ARK
, pp. 132–33; JC to Josephine Herbst, September 1959; JC to William Maxwell, summer 1959 (two letters); JC to Peter and Ebie Blume, summer 1959; interview Simon Michael Bessie, 6 June 1984.

M
IDDLE
-C
LASS
L
IFE:
Interview Lila Refrigier, 14 January 1985; interview Elizabeth Logan, 2 July 1984; Dana Gioia, “Meeting Mr. Cheever,” H
UDSON
R
EVIEW
, Autumn 1986, pp. 419–34.

N
EW
Y
ORKER
FLAREUP
, R
OSS
, M
AXWELL:
Dana Gioia et al., interview with JC, 23 January 1976; JC to Robert Gottlieb, 8 July 1976; Grant, “John Cheever: The Art,” pp. 52–53; interviews William Maxwell, 9 November 1983 and 9 April 1985; Susan Cheever Cowley and JC, “A Duet,” p. 69; JC to William Maxwell, December 1960; interview MC, 10 April 1985; Susan Cheever, “Remembering,” p. 51.

G
UGGENHEIM
, S
AN
F
RANCISCO:
JC to Mrs. Leighton (Guggenheim application), 21 January 1960 and 30 January 1960; Wallace Stegner to SD, 16 September 1984; “Publisher's Page,” E
SQUIRE
, October 1960, p. 6; interview Philip Roth, 18 July 1984; Robert Gutwillig, “Dim Views through Fog,” N
EW
Y
ORK
T
IMES
B
OOK
R
EVIEW
, 13 November 1960, pp. 68–69; JC, “The Death of Justina,” S
OME
P
EOPLE
, P
LACES, AND
T
HINGS
T
HAT
W
ILL
N
OT
A
PPEAR IN
M
Y
N
EXT
N
OVEL
(New York, 1961), pp. 1–19.

C
EDAR
L
ANE MORTGAGE:
JC to Josephine Herbst, 17 March 1958; JC to William Maxwell, 1960 (two letters); JC to Malcolm Cowley, 16 September 1960; Susan Cheever, H
OME
B
EFORE
D
ARK
, p. 123.

H
OLLYWOOD
, J
ERRY
W
ALD:
JC to Josephine Herbst, 10 October 1958; John D. Weaver to SD, 26 February 1985 and 12 April 1986; John D. Weaver, “Recollections,” p. 3; Daniel Fuchs to SD, 8 May 1984; interview Daniel and Sue Fuchs, 11 February 1985; interview Barrett and Jane Clark, 13 July 1984; interview Ben Cheever, 19 October 1984; JC to William Maxwell, 17 November 1960, Thanksgiving 1960, December 1960, and 1961; JC to Malcolm Cowley, 22 December 1960.

O
SSINING, HOUSE:
Dr. George Jackson Fisher, “Ossining,” H
ISTORY OF
W
ESTCHESTER
C
OUNTY
(Philadelphia, 1886), Vol. II, pp. 321–65; Martha Smilgis, “The Dark Moments of His Life Rival—and Perhaps Inspire—John Cheever's Stories,” P
EOPLE
, 23 April 1979, p. 78; interviews MC, 7 November 1983 and 10 April 1985; interview Charles Shapiro, 11 April 1985; interview Barrett and Jane Clark, 28 June 1984; Carl Oechsner, O
SSINING
, N
EW
Y
ORK
(Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., 1976), p. 7; interview Marion Ascoli, 5 July 1984; JC quoted in Susan Cheever, H
OME
B
EFORE
D
ARK
, pp. 123–24; JC, “A Vision of the World,” B
RIGADIER
, pp. 241–42; JC to Max Zimmer, February 1977; MC to Malcolm Cowley, 4 October 1982; interview Saul Bellow, 10 July 1984.

OSSINING

S
OCIAL LIFE
, B
OYER
, S
PEAR:
Interview Alan Williams, 18 September 1984; JC to William Maxwell, June 1964; JC to John Hersey, 196__; JC to Frederick Bracher, 16 March 1963; interview Philip and Mimi Boyer, 8–9 July 1984; JC to Frederick Exley, 1 June 1965; interviews Arthur and Stella Spear, 19 July 1983 and 10 November 1983; Arthur Spear to SD, 31 March 1986.

S
ARA
S
PENCER
, R
UDNIK
, R
OBINS:
Interview Sara Spencer, 10 November 1983; interview Anthony and Susan Spencer, 15 September 1984; interview Arthur and Stella Spear, 19 July 1983; JC to Sara Spencer, 196__ (two letters); interview Raphael Rudnik, 18 January 1985; interview Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, 26 July 1984; interview Natalie Robins, 22 October 1984.

P
HYSICAL LIFE, POOL, DOGS, CATS:
JC quoted in Robb, “Cheever's Story,” p. 12; interview Federico and Mary Cheever, 10 February 1985; tape recording, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt interview with JC, February 1969; JC to Allan Gurganus, 24 January 1974; JC to Laurens Schwartz, 26 June 1977; Nora Sayre to SD, 8 April 1985; JC to Malcolm Cowley, late 1961 and 1962; Malcolm Cowley to JC, 13 January 1962; JC to Josephine Herbst, 6 December 1963; Susan Cheever, H
OME
B
EFORE
D
ARK
, pp. 144–45; Susan Cheever Cowley and JC, “A Duet,” p. 70; Ron Hansen to SD, 25 June 1984; JC, “The Geometry of Love,” T
HE
W
ORLD OF
A
PPLES
(New York, 1973), p. 150; JC, F
ALCONER
, pp. 38–41.

S
OME
P
EOPLE
REVIEWS:
Malcolm Cowley to JC, 10 February 1961; David Boroff, “A World Filled with Trapdoors into Chaos,” N
EW
Y
ORK
T
IMES
B
OOK
R
EVIEW
, 16 April 1961, p. 34; Frank J. Warnke, “Cheever's Inferno,” N
EW
R
EPUBLIC
, 15 May 1961, p. 18; JC, “Some People, Places, and Things That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel,” N
EW
Y
ORKER
, p. 55; JC to Frederick Bracher, summer 1962.

M
AXWELL
, B
RACHER
, C
UMMINGS
, O'H
ARA:
Interview William Maxwell, 9 November 1983; Grant, “John Cheever: The Art,” pp. 53–58; JC to Frederick Bracher, 20 September 1962 and October 1962; interview Curtis Harnack and Hortense Calisher, 17 September 1984; JC to Marion Morehouse, 5 September 1962; Susan Cheever, H
OME
B
EFORE
D
ARK
, pp. 61–62; JC to—, 2 May 1963.

D
RINKING
, F
RED:
Max Zimmer journal; JC, typescript 21; Paul Moor to SD, 29 October 1984; interview Nina Engel, 21 June 1984; interview Virginia Rice Kahn, 5 June 1985; interview Simon Michael Bessie, 6 June 1984; JC to Frederick Bracher, August 1964; interview MC, 26 July 1984; interview Robert Penn Warren and Eleanor Clark, 10 July 1984.

R
ELATIONSHIP WITH
M
ARY:
Kenneth Shelton to MC, 27 July 1982; interview Raphael Rudnik, 18 January 1985; MC to Malcolm Cowley, 2 October 1982; Samuel Coale, “John Cheever: A Portrait” (unpublished paper, 1982), p. 8; interview John and Mary Dirks, 16 July 1984; interview Edward Newhouse, 5 June 1984; interview MC, 22 October 1984; MC, “To Emily Dickinson in Heaven,” T
HE
N
EED FOR
C
HOCOLATE
, p. 75; JC, “The Chimera,” W
ORLD OF
A
PPLES
, pp. 96–97; MC quoted in Alwyn Lee, “Ovid,” p. 72.

S
USAN
, B
EN
, F
EDERICO:
Interview Susan Cheever, 21 September 1983; Seligson, “Portrait,” p. 2; JC to William Maxwell, 1962 and 1963 (three letters); interview Charles Shapiro, 11 April 1985; interview Ben Cheever and Janet Maslin, 19 October 1984; interviews MC, 6 June 1983 and 20 October 1984; JC, typescript 21; interview Federico and Mary Cheever, 10 February 1985.

P
HOBIAS, DEPRESSION:
JC, “The Angel of the Bridge,” B
RIGADIER
, pp. 23–35; JC, “A Vision of the World,” B
RIGADIER
, pp. 238–47; JC to Frederick Bracher, September 1962, 25 June 1963, and 12 January 1964; tape recording, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt interview with JC, February 1969; Grant, “John Cheever: The Art,” p. 42; JC to Robert Gottlieb, 21 August 1968; JC to Malcolm Cowley, 1964; interview Susan Cheever, 21 September 1983.

W
APSHOT
S
CANDAL
,
REVIEWS:
Garrett, “The Charms of Innocence,” pp. 4, 8; Stanley Edgar Hyman, “John Cheever's Golden Egg,” N
EW
L
EADER
, 3 February 1964, pp. 23–24; Glenway Wescott, “A Surpassing Sequel,” N
EW
Y
ORK
H
ERALD
T
RIBUNE
B
OOK
R
EVIEW
, 5 January 1964, pp. 1, 9; interview Dennis Coates, 8 October 1984; JC, notes for S
CANDAL
in Coates, dissertation, pp. 55, 140, 141–42; Malcolm Cowley to JC, 22 October 1963.

C
ONFRONTATION WITH
N
EW
Y
ORKER:
Kornbluth, “Cheever Chronicle,” pp. 29, 102; Susan Cheever, H
OME
B
EFORE
D
ARK
, pp. 138–40; interview William Maxwell, 9 April 1985.

RUSSIA

T
IME
COVER STORY:
“A Letter from the Publisher,” T
IME
, 27 March 1964, p. 11; Paul Moor to SD, 29 October 1984; Bruce McCabe, “The Inner Realm of John Cheever,” B
OSTON
G
LOBE
, 23 October 1974; JC to Malcolm Cowley, winter 1963–64; JC to Frederick Bracher, spring 1964; JC to Eleanor Clark, 1964; interview Robert Penn Warren and Eleanor Clark, 10 July 1984; JC to William Maxwell, 1964; John W. Aldridge, “John Cheever and the Soft Sell of Disaster,” T
IME TO
M
URDER AND
C
REATE
(New York, 1966), p. 172; JC quoted in Susan Cheever, H
OME
B
EFORE
D
ARK
, p. 154; JC, typescript 21.

W
APSHOT
FILM
, H
OPE
L
ANGE:
Interview Hope Lange, 24 October 1984; interview David Lange, 6 June 1985; JC, typescript 21.

O
LD FRIEND
, M
ARY
, I
TALY:
JC, typescript 21; JC, “Boy in Rome,” S
OME
P
EOPLE
, pp. 138–39, 161; JC to Frederick Bracher, July 1964.

“T
HE
S
WIMMER”:
JC, “The Swimmer,”
B
RIGADIER
, pp. 61–76; JC to Alan Pakula, 1964; interview Frank Perry, 6 June 1985; Lewis Nichols, “A Visit with John Cheever,” N
EW
Y
ORK
T
IMES
B
OOK
R
EVIEW
, 5 January 1964, p. 28; Grant, “John Cheever: The Art,” pp. 62–63; Munro, “Not Only I,” p. 77; Dana Gioia et al., interview with JC, 23 January 1976, pp. 2–3, 10; tape recording, Joseph Barbato interview with JC, 27 October 1978.

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