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Susan Cheever

Susan Cheever
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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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Louisa May Alcott will be released on November 08, 2011 in Trade Paperback
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Louisa May Alcott is now available in Hardcover, eBook
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Louisa May Alcott will be released on November 02, 2010 in Hardcover, eBook
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Desire will be released on October 06, 2009 in Trade Paperback
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Desire is now available in Trade Paperback
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Melbourne Age, June 1, 2013
...the right. The celebrity offspring memoir may seem a degraded genre, but in the hands of people like Susan Cheever and now Greg Bellow, it raises important issues about the idea of being a writer and the sacrifices that supposedly requires...
Melbourne Age, June 1, 2013
...right. The celebrity offspring memoir may seem a degraded genre, but in the hands of people such as Susan Cheever, Rose Styron and now Greg Bellow, it raises important issues about the idea of being a writer and the sacrifices supposedly required...
Canberra Times, May 3, 2013
...in a cell at the Miami-Dade County Women's Detention Centre 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Melbourne Age, June 1, 2013
...the right. The celebrity offspring memoir may seem a degraded genre, but in the hands of people like Susan Cheever and now Greg Bellow, it raises important issues about the idea of being a writer and the sacrifices that supposedly requires...
Melbourne Age, June 1, 2013
...right. The celebrity offspring memoir may seem a degraded genre, but in the hands of people such as Susan Cheever, Rose Styron and now Greg Bellow, it raises important issues about the idea of being a writer and the sacrifices supposedly required...
Melbourne Age, June 1, 2013
...right. The celebrity offspring memoir may seem a degraded genre, but in the hands of people such as Susan Cheever, Rose Styron and now Greg Bellow, it raises important issues about the idea of being a writer and the sacrifices supposedly required...
WA Today, June 1, 2013
...right. The celebrity offspring memoir may seem a degraded genre, but in the hands of people such as Susan Cheever, Rose Styron and now Greg Bellow, it raises important issues about the idea of being a writer and the sacrifices supposedly required...
Melbourne Age, May 3, 2013
...in a cell at the Miami-Dade County Women's Detention Centre 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...
Sydney Morning Herald, May 3, 2013
...in a cell at the Miami-Dade County Women's Detention Centre 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...
Brisbane Times, May 3, 2013
...in a cell at the Miami-Dade County Women's Detention Centre 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...