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  2. 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. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. Oct 1, 1999 · Books & Ideas, Fiction, History. October 1, 1999. Since his death in 1992, all nine of Richard Yatess 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.

  6. May 1, 2004 · 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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  7. May 1, 2003 · 4.45. 523 ratings78 reviews. 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 ...

  8. Dec 7, 2008 · Like Men Betrayed. By James Wood. December 7, 2008. Yates wrote male characters who are anxious, easily provoked by female resistance. Illustration by Robert Risko. In April, 1951, Richard...

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