Edited by his son, this is a collection of the letters of the American novelist and short-story writer, John Cheever, a winner of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. It includes correspondence with contemporaries such as Saul Bellow, Malcolm Cowley, John Updike and Philip Roth, and addresses all periods and many aspects of Cheever's life, from his days as a young aspiring writer to the years following the success of The Stories of John Cheever, his bisexuality and his successful battle with alcoholism.