John Cheever vs. Michael Chabon
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
John Cheever
1912 – 1982
John William Cheever was an American short story writer and novelist. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". His fiction is mostly set on the Upper East Side of Manhattan; the Westchester suburbs; old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born; and Italy, especially Rome.
"Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil not the strength to choose between the two."
Michael Chabon
1963 – present
Michael Chabon is an American novelist, screenwriter, columnist, and short story writer. Born in Washington, D.C., he studied at Carnegie Mellon University for one year before transferring to the University of Pittsburgh, graduating in 1984. He subsequently received a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of California, Irvine.
"There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal."