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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 .
- Novelist, short story writer
- November 7, 1992 (aged 66), Birmingham, Alabama
- February 3, 1926, Yonkers, New York
- Realism
Feb 17, 2008 · John Updike and Philip Roth we know - but the great forgotten novelist of 20th-century America is Richard Yates. His debut, Revolutionary Road, was a critical success in 1961, but over the decades ...
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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- 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)
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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 of ...
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. When published by Atlantic-Little, Brown in 1961, it received critical acclaim, and The New York Times reviewed it as "beautifully crafted ...
Dec 7, 2008 · Like Men Betrayed. Yates wrote male characters who are anxious, easily provoked by female resistance. Illustration by Robert Risko. In April, 1951, Richard Yates sailed from New York to Paris. He ...
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