John Cheever
Cheever's good work at writing was noticed during his life. He got Guggenheim Fellowships in 1951 and 1960. Stories he wrote won Benjamin Franklin and O. Henry awards. He was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1957. His first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle won the National Book Award in 1958. The Wapshot Scandal of 1964 won the Howells Medal as the best work of fiction to be published between 1960–1965. The Stories of John Cheever won both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1979. He was given the National Medal for Literature in 1982, two months before he died from cancer.