On this day in 1982 John Cheever died at the age of seventy, in Ossining, New York. While alive, critics were calling him "the Chekhov of the suburbs"; in their obituary notice, the hometown paper found a comparison to a Russian, but not Chekhov: "Cheever was as closely associated with Ossining as Emerson with Concord, or Tolstoy with Yasnaya Polyana."
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