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Richard Walden Yates (February 3, 1926 – November 7, 1992) was an American fiction writer identified with the mid-century "Age of Anxiety". His first novel, Revolutionary Road, was a finalist for the 1962 National Book Award, while his first short story collection, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, brought comparisons to James Joyce.
Oct 1, 1999 · Since his death in 1992, all nine of Richard Yates’s titles have quietly dropped off the shelves. Once the most vaunted of authors–praised by Styron and Vonnegut and Robert Stone as the voice of a generation–he seems now to belong to that august yet sad category, the writer’s writer.
Richard Yates shone bright upon the publication of his first novel, Revolutionary Road, which was nominated for the National Book Award in 1961. It drew unbridled praise and branded Yates an important, new writer.
Richard Yates was a poet of post-World War II loneliness and disappointment, creating in his finest stories and in his masterpiece, "Revolutionary Road," indelible, Edward Hopperesque...
Revolutionary Road is American author Richard Yates's debut novel about 1950s suburban life on the East Coast. It was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1962, along with Catch-22 and The Moviegoer.
Dec 7, 2008 · In April, 1951, Richard Yates sailed from New York to Paris. He had been there twice before, as a child and, later, as a soldier, but for him, as for so many American writers, it was less a...
May 1, 2004 · A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates. Paperback – Illustrated, May 1, 2004. by Blake Bailey (Author) 4.8 92 ratings. See all formats and editions. Blake Bailey's A Tragic Honesty is the first biography of acclaimed American novelist and story writer Richard Yates.
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