Susan Cheever

Louisa May Alcott A Personal Biography
Lively and astute!

American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau
Transcendentalism--the story behind the scenes.

Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction
"A short, steamy read."

My Name Is Bill: Bill Wilson--His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous
"As a biography of one of the most humane and beneficial Americans who ever lived, it is a national treasure."

As Good As I Could Be
Raising wonderful children in a difficult world

Home Before Dark
A poignant memoir of a man driven by boundless genius and ambition.

Note Found in a Bottle
"Engrossing and remarkably devoid of self-flagellation."

Treetops
"Ms. Cheever's. . . coolly intelligent perspective. . . provides a clear, hard-edged picture of the snobbery, sexism, anti-Semitism adultery, alcoholism, and emotional dishonesty that were part and parcel of those swimming pools and tennis courts."

Elizabeth Cole
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1989

Doctors and Women
Clarkson N. Potter, 1987

The Cage
Houghton Mifflin, 1982. Paperback: Random House, 1983.

A Handsome Man
Simon & Schuster, 1981. Paperback: Ballantine Group: 1982.

Looking for Work
Simon & Schuster, 1980. Paperback: Fawcett, 1982.