Susan Cheever - A Handsome Man

Selected Works

Bestselling author Susan Cheever chronicles our national love affair with liquor, taking a long, thoughtful look at the way alcohol has changed our nation's history. This is the often-overlooked story of how alcohol has shaped American events and the American character from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.

Biography

E.E. Cummings. A Life

"She's put together a smart and readable portrait of this artist as a seemingly perpetual young man whose adult years were filled with personal despair, jumbled politics, a mix of anti-Communism, polite anti-Semitism and American self-actualization as well as family heartbreak." --Alan Cheuse on NPR

My Name Is Bill: Bill Wilson--His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous

"As a biography of one of the most humane and beneficial Americans who ever lived, it is a national treasure."

--Kurt Vonnegut

Literary History

Louisa May Alcott A Personal Biography

Lively and astute!

American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau

Transcendentalism--the story behind the scenes.

Addiction

Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction

"A short, steamy read."

--New York Post

Novels

A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation

Elizabeth Cole

Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1989

Doctors and Women

Clarkson N. Potter, 1987

The Cage

Houghton Mifflin, 1982. Paperback: Random House, 1983.

A Handsome Man

Simon & Schuster, 1981. Paperback: Ballantine Group: 1982.

Looking for Work

Simon & Schuster, 1980. Paperback: Fawcett, 1982.

Memoir

As Good As I Could Be

Raising wonderful children in a difficult world

Home Before Dark

A poignant memoir of a man driven by boundless genius and ambition.

Note Found in a Bottle

"Engrossing and remarkably devoid of self-flagellation."

--Seattle Weekly

Treetops

"Ms. Cheever's. . . coolly intelligent perspective. . . provides a clear, hard-edged picture of the snobbery, sexism, anti-Semitism adultery, alcoholism, and emotional dishonesty that were part and parcel of those swimming pools and tennis courts."

--Wall Street Journal

Quick Links

Public Speaking

On American literature, recovery and addiction, creativity

Teaching

Exercises, exercises

E-mail me

susancheever@gmail.com

Authors Guild

Advocates for published authors since 1912

A Handsome Man

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.