Susan Cheever

American Bloomsbury: The Lives of Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau in Concord Massachusetts from 1840 to 1868

Title of book, magazine article, speech, etc.



Books Authored

American Bloomsbury: The LIves of Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau in Concord, Massachusetts from 1840 to 1868.

My Name Is Bill: Bill Wilson--His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous. Simon & Schuster 2004

As Good As I Could Be: A Memoir of Raising Wonderful Children in Difficult Times. Susan Cheever. Simon & Schuster, 2001.
Paperback: Pocket Books: 2002.

Home Before Dark: A Biographical Memoir of John Cheever by His Daughter. Susan Cheever. Washington Square Press, 1999.
eBook: PreviewPort Editions: 2000.
Hardback: Houghton Mifflin: 1984.
Paperback: Pocket Books: 1985.
Paperback: Bantam Doubleday Dell : 1991.

(1984)


Note Found In a Bottle: My Life as a Drinker. Susan Cheever. Washington Square Press, 1999.
Hardback: Simon & Schuster: 1999.

A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation. Susan Cheever. HarperCollins, 1995.
Hardback: HarperCollins: 1994.

Treetops: A Family Memoir. Susan Cheever. Washington Square Press, 1991.
eBook: PreviewPort Editions: 2000.
Paperback: Bantam Doubleday Dell : 1991.
Hardback: Bantam Doubleday Dell : 1991.


Elizabeth Cole. Susan Cheever. Farrar Straus & Giroux , 1989.



Doctors and Women. Susan Cheever. Clarkson Potter, 1987.

Kate Loomis, a young, married journalist, finds her world coming apart when she falls in love with the powerful doctor who is treating her mother for cancer.


The Cage. Susan Cheever. Houghton Mifflin, 1982.
Paperback: Ballantine Group: 1983.

Alone in their New Hampshire summer estate, magazine writer William Bristol and his suburb-bound wife, Julia, confront the fragmentation of their once-shared hopes amid the private-menagerie cages inherited from Julia's wealthy family


A Handsome Man. Susan Cheever. Simon & Schuster, 1981.
Paperback: Ballantine Group: 1982.

Publicist Hannah Bart goes to Ireland with her older lover, Sam Noble, to meet his estranged son, Travis, and finds herself in competition with the young man for his father's love


Looking for Work. Susan Cheever. Ballantine Group, 1980.




Curriculum Vitae

PUBLICATIONS
Novels
Looking for Work, l980 (Simon &Schuster)
A Handsome Man, l981 (S & S)
The Cage, l982 (Houghton Mifflin)
Doctors & Women, l987 (Clarkson N. Potter)
Elizabeth Cole, l989 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Non Fiction:
Home Before Dark :A Biographical Memoir of John Cheever, l984 (Houghton Mifflin. Treetops: A Family Memoir. l991 (Bantam)
A Woman's Life: The Story of an Extraordinary Generation. (l994 William Morrow.)
Note Found in a Bottle: My Life As a Drinker. l999 (Simon & Schuster)
As Good As I Could Be: A Memoir of Raising Wonderful Children in Difficult Times. 2001.
My Name Is Bill. Bill Wilson: His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous. 2004 I am writing a book about Concord, Massachusetts in the 19th century: a biography of the Alcotts, Thoreau, the Emersons, and Hawthorne due in 2006, and titled Outbreak of Genius.

WRITING
I have written essays, book reviews and articles regularly for many publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Talk Magazine and The Washington Post. From 1992-2006 I wrote a column for Newsday on subjects from parenting to politics. From l974 l978 I was a writer at Newsweek. From l969 to l972 I was reporter for the Westchester Rockland Newspapers.

TEACHING
1966 l970. High School. English: The Colorado Rocky Mountain School in
Carbondale, Colorado and The Scarborough School in Scarborough, New York.
l995 Hunter College.
1994 96 Marymount Manhattan.
1999 Yale University.
1995 the present, Professor Bennington College M.F.A. Program.
2004-the present, Professor the New School M.F.A. program.

DEGREES and AWARDS
Brown University B.A. in American Literature. Studies at Harvard College and New York University. National Book Critic's Circle Award nominee, Boston Globe's Winship Medal winner, Associated Press award winner, part of a Pulitzer Prize winning team at Newsday, New York Public Library Literary Lion, Guggenheim fellow, a member of the Author's Guild Council and a director of the Board of the Yaddo Corporation.