Where do a writer’s stories come from? For Susan Cheever, the question is a longtime preoccupation. She’s the eldest child of John Cheever, the 20th-century literary titan whose short-story ...

Those who look to Cheever's memoirs (Home Before Dark; Note Found in a Bottle) for insights into her father, writer John Cheever, will find this book disappointing ...

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times. In “When All the Men Wore Hats,” Susan Cheever considers her father as a writer and a role model, recounting the stories behind ...

Susan Cheever comment on fashion dictates of women in her family, from her great-grandmother always in two petticoats to her own teen-age daughter, who has brought circle full around with her own long ...