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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 · He’s the most readable and accessible of literary writers, a master of pacing, moving time effortlessly, and as a serious author he seemed to command respect from the very beginning. His first novel, Revolutionary Road (1961), was an instant success, a finalist for the National Book Award alongside Catch-22 and The Moviegoer, and equally deserving.
Dec 31, 2008 · Author Richard Yates is best known for his novel Revolutionary Road, which has been adapted to a movie to be released in January. But a life defined by drunken nights left Yates' own life...
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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.
Jul 9, 1989 · Richard Yates was 36 years old and his first novel, “Revolutionary Road,” published in 1961, had garnered not the elliptical adjectives that constitute the usual dust-jacket blurbs, but whole ...
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 portraits...
