Name: When All the Men Wore Hats: Susan Cheever on the Stories of John Cheever
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When All the Men Wore Hats: Susan Cheever on the Stories of John Cheever

Author:	Cheever, Susan
Binding:	Hardcover
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ISBN:	9780374600990
Publisher:	Farrar Straus Giroux
Language:	English
Page Count:	377
Publication Date:	10/28/2025
Size:	8.50" l x 5.50" w x 1.25"
Series:	N/A

Category	Subject
Biography & Autobiography	Literary
Literary Criticism	Short Stories

In When All the Men Wore Hats, Susan Cheever—eldest daughter of acclaimed short story writer John Cheever—blends memoir, literary criticism, and family history to illuminate her father’s most celebrated stories and the life behind them.

Growing up around the rhythms of Cheever’s writing life, she revisits six of his most remarkable works, tracing the threads that connect lived experience to art. Cheever reflects on how gossip, myth, and personal history transformed ordinary moments into stories like “The Country Husband” and “The Swimmer,” and includes these stories in full in the book’s appendix. Through candid reflections and contextual analysis, she examines the intersection of truth and fiction, and how creative life shapes—and is shaped by—the human heart.

“When All the Men Wore Hats is most affecting when [Susan Cheever] describes how her relationship with her father has deepened since his death.” — The Wall Street Journal

“Readers encountering John Cheever’s brilliant short stories for the first time will find When All the Men Wore Hats an illuminating companion…” — BookPage

“By turns affectionate and admiring but also clear-sighted and unsparing…” — Kirkus Reviews