“For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle. [It] has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.”

—  John Cheever

Accepting National Medal for Literature (April 27, 1982).

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American novelist and short story writer 1912–1982

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