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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 · Richard Yates was a master of capturing the mundane sadness of domestic life in America, praised by his peers but neglected by readers. This article explores his life, work and legacy, and why he deserves to be rediscovered.
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- Revolutionary Road.
- The Easter Parade.
- Eleven Kinds of Loneliness.
- The Collected Stories by Richard Yates, Richard Russo (Goodreads Author) (Introduction)
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.
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...
Dec 7, 2008 · In April, 1951, Richard Yates sailed from New York to Paris. He had been there twice before, as a child and, later, as a soldier, but for him, as for so many American writers, it...
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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.
