If you scour the course descriptions and syllabi at SUNY at Buffalo or any other elite university English Department you’re not going find any mention of John Cheever. John Cheever was once considered the best American short story writer. He captured the essence of life in suburbia. The Stories of John Cheever won a Pulitzer Prize in 1979. Cheever was a mainstay at The New Yorker for decades. Although not known as a great novelist, Cheever’s first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle, won a National Book Award. I consider Cheever’s penultimate novel, Falconer, to be a Forgotten Book of the first rank in quality. Cheever’s demons–alcoholism, depression, sexual obsession–destroyed him in 1982. His fame had slipped away year by year since then until Cheever and his works were nearly forgotten. Now, with these two just released, wonderful Library of America volumes, Cheever’s brilliant short stories and clever novels are available again. Don’t miss the delights in these pages!