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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.
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.
Nov 9, 1992 · He graduated from Avon Old Farms school in Avon, Conn., and served in the Army in World War II. He was a publicity writer for Remington Rand Inc. in New York City before becoming a freelance ...
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- November 7, 1992
- February 3, 1926
- Revolutionary Road.
- The Easter Parade.
- Eleven Kinds of Loneliness.
- The Collected Stories by Richard Yates, Richard Russo (Goodreads Author) (Introduction)
Oct 1, 1999 · Both reviewers treat Yates’s generosity and harshness as separate powers, called upon at different times, as if, like Zeus, his mood changes as the novel goes on. The converse is actually true; in tone and execution Yates is the calmest of novelists, the surface hardly marred by his intrusion.
2. 3. <p> 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 ...
Yates was born in Yonkers in 1926. His parents divorced when he was three and the family – his mother, his sister and Yates – moved around. After graduation, he joined the army in 1944 and saw action in France. He served in the army occupying Germany and also got TB.
