Authors, Poets & Novelists Posters & Prints: “Che...-”
for literature & language arts classrooms, homeschoolers, and scholars.

John Cheever
b. 5-27-1912; Quincy, MA
d. 6-18-1982; Ossining, NY

John Cheever was a novelist and short story writer sometimes called the “Chekhov of the suburbs”, with his fictions set in the suburban areas of New York City, the East coast, and Rome. His short stories were awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1979.

Cheever also had a long struggle with alcoholism.

John Cheever quotes ~
• “Art is the triumph over chaos.”
• “I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.”
• “Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.”
• “The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.”

Anton Chekhov
b. 1-29-1850; Taganrog, Russia
d. 7-2-1904; Badenweiler, German Empire (tuberculosis)

Russian playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov, best remembered for his plays The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard, was also a medical doctor.

• The Portable Chekhov, Anton Chekhov

Chekhov quotes ~
• “Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress.”
• “There is nothing new in art except talent.”
• “We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.”
• “The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.”

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
b. 5-29-1874; London, England
d. 6-14-1936

The Innocence of Father Brown is G.K. Chesterton's first mystery about the unassuming little priest who solves crimes by imagining himself inside the mind and soul of criminals.

Chesterton, in collaboration with Hilaire Belloc, developed distributivism, a third-way economic philosophy applying the principles of Catholic Social Teaching ensure that most people will become owners of productive property.

G. K. Chesterton quotes ~
• “Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.”
• “Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.”
• “Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.”
• “None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.”
• “Great joy does not gather the rosebuds while it may; its eyes are fixed on the immortal rose which Dante saw.”
• “One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak.”

• Peace & Justice Education Posters

Charles W. Chesnutt Stories, Novels and Essays (no commerically avaiable poster)

Charles W. Chesnutt
b. 6-20-1858; Cleveland, OH
d. 11-15-1932 (heart attack)

Novelist and short-story writer Charles W. Chesnutt broke new ground in American literature with his pioneering use of African-American folklore and candid exploration of racial identity.

Chestnutt was the son of free people of color (his paternal grandfather was a white slaveholder) and he could have “passed for white” by appearance but chose not to.

The NAACP awarded the Spingarn Medal to Chestnutt in 1928.