Benjamin Cheever

Benjamin Cheever

Benjamin Hale Cheever (born October 8, 1948) is an American writer. He is the son of writer John Cheever and brother of Susan Cheever. To date, he has written four novels—"The Plagarist", "The Partisan", "Famous After Death", and "The Good Nanny"—and two nonfiction works, "Selling Ben Cheever" and "Strides: Running Through History With an Unlikely Athlete". He is also the editor of "The Letters of John Cheever".

Cheever has also been a reporter for daily newspapers and an editor at "Reader's Digest".cite web | url=http://www.bloomsburyusa.com/Catalogue/details.asp?isbn=9781582343266&cf=0&y=2002&bm=9&em=12 | title=Selling Ben Cheever | publisher=Bloomsbury | accessdate=2007-04-18] He has taught at Bennington College and The New School for Social Research. He lives in Pleasantville, New York, with his wife, the "New York Times" critic Janet Maslin, and their sons.

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* [http://www.bloomsbury.com/authors/microsite.asp?id=304&section=2 Ben Cheever] profile at Bloomsbury Publishing
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* [http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0499/cheever/essay.html Essay by Ben Cheever]


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