Susan Cheever is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, most recently Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography.
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Why Do Women Love Bad Men?
That was sadly even true for Margaret Fuller, one of the leading lights of transcendentalism.... MORE
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Gin Without the Tonic
Go on, act like Gatsby this summer. But real aristocrats had a code. MORE
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Rich Beach Lit
The latest round of beach reads set among America’s elite behaving badly gets Susan Cheever... MORE
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An Affair to Remember
Kati Marton recounts her marriage to the late ambassador Richard Holbrooke and the anchor Peter... MORE
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Didion Nearly Scrapped Memoir
‘Blue Nights’ was almost abandoned halfway through. Joan Didion tells Susan Cheever why. MORE
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Jackie’s Enduring Mystique
The Jackie Kennedy interview tapes reveal too much about a private couple—and show us what we’ve... MORE
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The Princess and the Terminator
Older couples are calling it quits and returning to adolescence. MORE
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Please Stop Writing!
Why do even the best novelists lose their literary magic after a few books?... MORE
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Please Stop Writing!
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Guess Who's 60 Now?
Happy Birthday Meryl, Vera, Sissy, and Anna!... MORE
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Who's a Bad Mother?
Ayelet Waldman was slammed for writing she loved her husband, Michael Chabon, more than her kids.... MORE
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Cheever on Cheever
A definitive new biography of John Cheever restores the literary reputation of a 20th-century... MORE
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Old Is the New Sexy
The Daily Beast's Susan Cheever talks to Last Chance Harvey's Emma Thompson about sexuality, her... MORE
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A Writer’s Secret Life, Part II
For many, sex is an addiction.... MORE
