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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.
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...
Yates was born in Yonkers in 1926. His parents divorced when he was three and the family – his mother, his sister and Yates – moved around. After graduation, he joined the army in 1944 and saw action in France. He served in the army occupying Germany and also got TB.
1 mag 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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Biography. Richard Yates was born in Yonkers, New York, on February 3, 1926, to a middle-class family. His parents were divorced when he was two years old. Yates was raised by his mother, a...
7 dic 2008 · Like Men Betrayed | The New Yorker. Books. Like Men Betrayed. By James Wood. December 7, 2008. Save this story. Yates wrote male characters who are anxious, easily provoked by female...
1 ott 1999 · The Lost World of Richard Yates. Why a great writer of the Age of Anxiety disappeared from print. 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 ...
