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   Who is Richard Yates?

   • to discover what your friends think of this book! If you have an interest, as I do, in scouring the lives of talented, depressed, witty, alcoholic American writers, do not miss this dirge on Richard Yates, author of Revolutionary Road.

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   What happened to Richard Yates?

   • Why a great writer of the Age of Anxiety disappeared from print. 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.

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   Is Yates a good writer?

   • 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.

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   Was Richard Yates neglected?

   • Stewart O'Nan probed the neglect of Yates in "The Lost World of Richard Yates: How the Great Writer of the Age of Anxiety Disappeared from Print". Prominent authors, such as William Styron, Kurt Vonnegut, and Tennessee Williams, wrote blurbs that appeared on the dust jacket.

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   November 7, 1992. (1992-11-07) (aged 66) Birmingham, Alabama. Occupation. Novelist, short story writer. Literary movement. Realism. Richard Walden Yates (February 3, 1926 – November 7, 1992) was an American fiction writer identified with the mid-century "Age of Anxiety".

3. www.nytimes.com › 1992/11/09 › obituariesRichard Yates, Novelist, 66, Dies; Chronicler of Disappointed ...

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   Nov 9, 1992 · Richard Yates, who wrote "Revolutionary Road" and other novels about self-deception, disappointment and grief, died on Saturday at the Birmingham (Ala.) Veterans Administration hospital. He was...

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   Oct 1, 1999 · Books & Ideas, Fiction, History. October 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.

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   May 1, 2003 · Blake Bailey's A Tragic Honesty is the first biography of acclaimed American novelist and story writer Richard Yates. Celebrated in his prime, forgotten in his final years, only to be championed anew by our greatest contemporary authors, Richard Yates has always exposed readers to the unsettling hypocrisies of our modern age.

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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.

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   Jul 9, 1989 · A Fresh Twist in the Road : For Novelist Richard Yates, a Specialist in Grim Irony, Late Fame’s a Wicked Return. By ELIZABETH VENANT. July 9, 1989 12 AM PT. Times Staff Writer. It was the...

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    Essay. Suburban Rapture. Phyllis McGinley’s poetry of suburban grace won the Pulitzer Prize the same year “Revolutionary Road” appeared. By Ginia Bellafante. TBR. Inside the List. Richard...