Books by Richard Yates
Born: 1926; Died: 1992Richard Yates Biography & Notes
Richard Yates was born in Yonkers in 1926; his parents were divorced, and his mother--a sculptor--raised him. He skipped college, served in the Army during World War II, and was briefly one of Robert Kennedy's speech writers in the 1960s. He lived for a while in the South of France, which is where he began to write fiction. Married twice, he was the father of three daughters. Yates died in Alabama at the age of 66, the author of seven novels and several short stories. Among writers, Yates, for all his obscurity, is highly regarded as a satirist who nonetheless sees deeply into the human heart. His novel REVOLUTIONARY ROAD (1961), set in a particularly unappetizing version of suburbia, is considered his greatest work and has become a cult favorite.
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Cold Spring Harbor by Richard Yates ( 1987)
In a small Long Island town during the first months of World War II, Evan Shepard, a young machinist married for the second time, agrees to share a house with his wife's family and becomes torn by divided loyalties.
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The Collected Stories of Richard Yates by Richard Yates ( 2001)
The stories of Richard Yates are collected into a single volume for the first time, featuring nine new stories never before published in a collection, as well as works from the anthologies Eleven Kinds of Loneliness and Liars in Love. 25,000 first printing. First serial, The New Yorker.
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The Easter Parade A Novel by Richard Yates ( 2001)
Children of divorced parents, sisters Sarah and Emily Grimes are observed over four decades, and grow into two very different women. Sarah is stable and stalwart, settling into an unhappy marriage. Emily is precocious and independent, struggling with one unsatisfactory love affair after another. Richard Yates's acclaimed novel is about how both women struggle to overcome their tarnished family's past, and how both finally reach for some semblance of renewal.
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Eleven Kinds of Loneliness Short Stories by Richard Yates ( 1989)
Stories explore the experiences and troubled relationships of middle class inhabitants of New York City, who struggle with their loneliness.
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Liars in Love by Richard Yates ( 1982)
A collection of short stories--including "Trying Out for the Race," "A Compassionate Leave," "Oh, Joseph, I'm So Tired," and "Saying Good-bye to Sally"--explores troubled human relationships and family life.
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Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates ( 2009)
Written by the author who whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the white-collar despair of Manhattan office workers or the heartbreak of a single mother with artistic pretensions, ruthlessly examines the hopes and disappointments of ordinary people with empathy and humour.
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William Styron's Lie Down in Darkness A Screenplay by William Styron, Richard Yates ( 1985) |
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Young Hearts Crying by Richard Yates ( 2009)
Chronicles the marriage of Harvard graduate and budding poet and playwright Michael Davenport to radiant Radcliffe graduate Lucy Blaine in 1950s Europe as it founders under the strain of Lucy's million-dollar inheritance and the struggles of Michael's writing career. Reprint.
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