Another of his stories is set on the sort of midsummer day when everyone says, "I drank too much."
A story by this author opens with a plane landing in a cornfield and centers on Francis Weed's love for a babysitter. Another of his stories is set on the sort of midsummer day when everyone says, "I drank too much." In a story by this author, a secretary forces her former boss to put his face in the dirt after pulling a gun on him on the train. This author created the town of Shady Hill, and he wrote a story in which Irene Wescott learns her neighbors are secretly miserable by listening to them with the title device. Another of his stories ends with a man reaching his locked and empty house after traveling home on the "Lucinda River." For 10 points, name this author of "The Enormous Radio" who wrote about Neddy Merrill in "The Swimmer."
A story by this author opens with a plane landing in a cornfield and centers on Francis Weed's love for a babysitter.
John Cheever