Strides

Running Through History With an Unlikely Athlete

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Acclaimed novelist Benjamin Cheever--author of The Plagiarist, Famous After Death, and The Good Nanny--brings his buoyant literary style to this impassioned memoir about the sport that changed his life.

From Pheidippides, who ran the first marathon in 490 BC--bringing news to Athens of the Greek victory on the plains of Marathon--to our own soldiers in Iraq today, running is an integral part of human culture and legend. In Strides, heralded author Benjamin Cheever explores the role of running in human history while interspersing this account with revelations of his own decades-long devotion to the sport.

Cheever has traveled the world writing features for Runner's World magazine, and he draws from this rich experience on every page. His adventures have taken him to…

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September 18, 2007

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Benjamin Cheever is the author of The Plagiarist and The Partisan (Editor's Choice of the New York Times Best Books of 1994). A former editor at Reader's Digest, he has written for the New York Times, The Nation, and The New Yorker. He edited The Letters of John Cheever. He lives in Pleasantville, New York.