She is now married to writer Benjamin Cheever, and lives with their two sons in Pleasantville, New York, where she serves as president of the board of the Jacob Burns Film Center.
Son: John Moses Cheever
Janet Maslin Wed To B. H. Cheever
Published: December 25, 1981
Janet Reva Maslin and Benjamin Hale Cheever were married yesterday at the home of the bridegroom's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Cheever, in Ossining, N.Y. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Maslin of East Hills, L.I., and Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Village Justice Thomas Barnes of Ossining performed the ceremony.
The bride was attended by Randy Lehrer Nemser. Federico Cheever was best man for his brother. Mrs. Cheever, who is a film critic for The New York Times, graduated from the University of Rochester. Her previous marriage ended in divorce, as did the bridegroom's. Her father is a vice president of Nehring Brothers, a real-estate concern in New York. Her mother, Lucille B. Maslin, is a retired mathematics teacher at Martin Van Buren High School in Queens Village, Queens.
The bridegroom, an associate editor of Reader's Digest in Pleasantville, N.Y., is an alumnus of the Loomis School and Antioch College. His father, the novelist and short-story writer, received the Pulitzer Prize for literature in 1979. His mother, Mary Cheever, is the author of ''The Need for Chocolate and Other Poems,'' published in 1980 by Stein & Day.
Mr. Cheever is a grandson of the late Dr. Milton Winternitz, who was dean of the Yale Medical School, and a great-grandson of Thomas Augustus Watson of Boston. Mr. Watson was an assistant to Alexander Graham Bell, whose first words on his famous instrument were, ''Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you.''