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Susan Cheever

Susan Cheever is the bestselling author of thirteen previous books, including five novels and the memoirs Note Found in a Bottle and Home Before Dark. Her work has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Boston Globe Winship Medal. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, a member of the Corporation of Yaddo, and a member of the Author's Guild Council. She teaches in the Bennington College M.F.A. program. She lives in New York City with her family.

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Memoir portrays Saul Bellow as an egotistical womaniser who drove his son into therapy
The Independent, April 17, 2013
...in a cell at the Miami-Dade County Women's Detention Center in 2001. A decade after Papa came Susan Cheever's startling Home Before Dark: a Biographical Memoir of John Cheever in 1985. The writer's only daughter, she revealed her papa to be an alcoholic...
Futter Replaces Goldstein as Twelve Publisher
PublishersWeekly.com, April 11, 2013
...be editing for the Twelve list include an untitled memoir by Barbara Ehrenreich, The History of Drinking by Susan Cheever, First Girl by New Yorker writer Patricia Marx, and a memoir by Alexandra Zapruder...
Barnes & Noble Announces the Winners of the 22nd Annual Discover Great New Writers Awards
Stockwatch, March 6, 2013
...2010 Discover selection) and What It Is Like to Go to War. This year’s Nonfiction judges were Susan Cheever, author of nine works of nonfiction, including Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography and five novels; Wendy McClure, author of the 2011...
Nathaniel and Simon: The Brothers Rich
New York Times, January 4, 2013
...battling the perception of nepotism while carving out their identities. Many have stumbled along the way. Just ask Susan Cheever (whose books document her struggles with alcoholism and sex addiction), or David Updike (how could one possibly be as...
'Every Natural Fact' Author Claims the Path to Happy Holidays Winds Through the Woods
NewsBlaze, November 21, 2012
...Share This Story M MILWAUKEE, Nov. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The hustle of the holiday season may be the call to shop. Author Amy Lou Jenkins hopes you will engage with the season by heading to the woods, prairie or nearest natural space. The...
Louisa May Alcott's Mother Was Also Her Muse
Womens Enews, November 18, 2012
...was seen as Louisa's mentor. "Louisa May Alcott was so dominated by her father," the biographer Susan Cheever wrote, "that it is hard to unravel their lives from each other. . . . In every big decision [Louisa] made, her father hovers in the...
"Central Park: An Anthology," by Andrew Blauner
CBS News, August 24, 2012
...whom I trust is enjoying life, to this day, "in the country." Which always reminds me of Susan Cheever's story in the book, called "My Little Bit of Country," which refers to Andy Warhol's line about how it was better to live in the city...
Nathaniel and Simon: The Brothers Rich
New York Times, January 4, 2013
...battling the perception of nepotism while carving out their identities. Many have stumbled along the way. Just ask Susan Cheever (whose books document her struggles with alcoholism and sex addiction), or David Updike (how could one possibly be as...
The Family Franchise
New York Times, January 4, 2013
...battling the perception of nepotism while carving out their identities. Many have stumbled along the way. Just ask Susan Cheever (whose books document her struggles with alcoholism and sex addiction), or David Updike (how could one possibly be as...
Alcoholics (not) Anonymous?
Toronto Star Online, December 20, 2012
...Is it time for AA to drop the second “a”? Some say yes — most famously author Susan Cheever. She has written not only about her own drinking and that of her father, writer John Cheever, but also a biography of Bill Wilson, one of the co-founders of...
'Every Natural Fact' Author Claims the Path to Happy Holidays Winds Through the Woods
Asian Hospital & Healthcare Management, November 22, 2012
...history, memoir, gentle parenting guidance, and superb nature writing, Jenkins' prose illuminates the details of ordinary life."—Susan Cheever, author of 'American Bloomsbury' "Wisconsin's wild areas become the world in extraordinary debut by...
‘Every Natural Fact’ Author Claims the Path to Happy Holidays Winds Through the Woods
E Releases, November 21, 2012
...history, memoir, gentle parenting guidance, and superb nature writing, Jenkins’ prose illuminates the details of ordinary life.”— Susan Cheever , author of ‘American Bloomsbury’ “Wisconsin’s wild areas become the world in extraordinary...
'Every Natural Fact' Author Claims the Path to Happy Holidays Winds Through the Woods
San Francisco Business Times, November 21, 2012
...MILWAUKEE, Nov. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --� The hustle of the holiday season may be the call to shop. Author Amy Lou Jenkins hopes you will engage with the season by heading to the woods, prairie or nearest natural space. The Award-winning author...
'Every Natural Fact' Author Claims the Path to Happy Holidays Winds Through the Woods
Nashville Business Journal, November 21, 2012
...MILWAUKEE, Nov. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --� The hustle of the holiday season may be the call to shop. Author Amy Lou Jenkins hopes you will engage with the season by heading to the woods, prairie or nearest natural space. The Award-winning author...