Susan Cheever (born July 31, 1943) is an American author and a prize-winning best-selling writer well known for her memoir, her writing about alcoholism, and her intimate understanding of American history. She is a recipient of the PEN New England Award. She currently teaches in the MFA program at The New School in New York City.
Books in order of publication:
Looking For Work (1979)
A Handsome Man (1981)
The Cage (1982)
Home Before Dark (1984)
Doctors & Women (1987)
Elizabeth Cole (1989)
Treetops: A Memoir About Raising Wonderful Children in an Imperfect World (1991)
A Woman’s Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation (1994)
Jrnls John Cheever #1 (1995)
Note Found in a Bottle (1999)
My Name is Bill: Bill Wilson– His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous (2004)
American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau – Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work (2006)
Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction (2008)
Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography (2010)
E.E. Cummings: A Life (2014)
Drinking in America: Our Secret History (2016)
When All the Men Wore Hats (2025)
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