Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing: The Bennington Writing Seminars

Core Faculty

Susan Cheever, Nonfiction

Cheever's newest book, My Name is Bill: Bill Wilson, His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2004. Her next book, American Bloomsbury: The Lives of Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau in Concord, Massachusetts between 1840 and 1868, will be published by Simon & Schuster in December 2006. She is also the author of As Good As I Could Be: A Memoir of Raising Wonderful Children in Difficult Times (Simon & Shuster, 2001), Note Found in a Bottle: My Life as a Drinker (Simon & Schuster, 1999), A Woman's Life: A Story of an Ordinary Woman and Her Extraordinary Generation (Morrow), Treetops: A Family Memoir (Bantam, 1991), and Home Before Dark: A Biographical Memoir of John Cheever by His Daughter (Houghton Mifflin, 1984). She has also published five novels, including Looking for Work, A Handsome Man, and Doctors and Women. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Newsday, and she has contributed to many other magazines and anthologies. Her work has been nominated for a National Book Circle Award and won the Boston Globe Winship medal. She received Guggenheim Fellowship, is a member of the Authors Guild Council, and a director of the Yaddo Corporation. Cheever took a BA from Brown and has taught at Yale, Hunter College, and elsewhere. She lives in New York City.

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