The National Book Foundation and Library of America present

CHEEVER: A LIFE

July 30, 2009
Thursday at 6:30 p.m.

Featuring: Blake Bailey, Susan Cheever, Bret Anthony Johnston, Max Rudin

Join the National Book Foundation and Library of America for an examination of the life and work of two-time National Book Award winner John Cheever, with Cheever’s biographer Blake Bailey, Library of America publisher Max Rudin, Cheever’s daughter, Susan, and fiction writer Bret Anthony Johnston.

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Blake Bailey is the author of Cheever: A Life (Knopf, 2009) and the editor of The Library of America’s two-volume edition: John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings and John Cheever: Complete Novels (Penguin, 2009).

Susan Cheever is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction. Her work has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Boston Globe Winship Medal. Her most recent book is Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction.
Susan Cheever photo by Sigrid Estrada

Bret Anthony Johnston is the author of the acclaimed Corpus Christi: Stories and the editor of Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer. He is director of the creative writing department at Harvard.

Max Rudin is the publisher of The Library of America.

MAD. SQ. READS is the Madison Square Park Conservancy's free outdoor reading series. Each program lasts about one hour. Books are sold at the event by Borders.

Cheever photo: David Lees