Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
John Cheever
Born: May 27, 1912
Died: June 18, 1982 (aged 70)
Bio: John William Cheever was an American novelist and short story writer. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs".
Known for:
- The Stories of John Cheever (1978)
- The Wapshot Chronicle (1957)
- Falconer (1977)
- The Journals of John Cheever
- Bullet Park (1969)
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