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	Review \| A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates by Blake Bailey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		To be a devotee of Richard Yates, circa 1990, was a lonely undertaking.
		Reading Richard Yates these days is not dependent on the haphazard discovery, with much of his work back in print; accessible to the reading public and attractively packaged.
		Yates' failure to fully emerge as a leading, notable writer was probably largely owed to an oeuvre neither fish nor fowl -- and to plain bad timing.
	www.januarymagazine.com /artcult/yates.html (970 words)

	Richard Yates (novelist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Richard Yates (1926 - 1992) was an American novelist and short story writer, with a reputation as a chronicler of mid-20th century mainstream American life, often cited as artistically residing somewhere between J.D. Salinger and John Cheever.
		Born in Yonkers, New York, Yates lived by his pen throughout his life, working as a journalist, freelance ghost writer (briefly also for Senator Robert Kennedy) and publicity writer, eventually starting his career as a novelist in 1961 with the publication of Revolutionary Road.
		Twice divorced and the father of three daughters, Yates died of emphysema in Birmingham, Alabama.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Yates_(novelist) (183 words)

	NoGators.com / writing / Remembering Richard Yates
		Yates read the first story in his now out-of-print collection Liars in Love, "Oh, Joseph, I'm So Tired." The story is, in many ways, a good sampling of his style and work in general.
		Yates' health was failing, and I suppose he felt he needed to beat the clock.
		I had long felt, as had John, that it was a true miscarriage of literary justice that left Yates in a grimy duplex in Alabama while the Judith Krantzes and Tom Clancys of the world languished in penthouses and million-dollar-estates.
	www.nogators.com /yates.html (999 words)

	The Lost World of Richard Yates
		The strength of Yates is that he brings us close to her in all her hopeless hope: what Wilson really means here is that he’s held back a final measure of emotion for her because with all her flaws she doesn’t fit his idealized view of a saintly, more deserving heroine.
		Yates writes of these characters with sympathy so clear-hearted that it often feels like nostalgia for his own youth, and yet he is also thoroughly uncompromising in revealing their capacity for self-delusion, their bewilderment in the face of failure.
		Yates was teaching at USC now, suffering from emphysema and living in an apartment with rented furniture, one wall adorned with portraits of his three daughters.
	www.bostonreview.net /BR24.5/onan.html (8316 words)

	Meet Richard Yates : by Elizabeth Cox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Richard Yates (1926-1992) was known as the "great writer of the Age of Anxiety," a man who wrote deftly about lostness.
		Yates consistently received praise from critics in all major venues, such as The New York Times Book Review, Esquire, and The Washington Post, and four of his novels were selections of the Book-of-the-Month club, but he never sold more than 12,000 copies of any one book in hardback.
		Yates is one of the best writers to read in order to understand the way life veers into unexpected paths and leaves us helpless.
	www.pifmagazine.com /2000/10/f_intro_yates.php3 (740 words)

	'A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates' by Blake Bailey
		Richard Yates was the loneliest writer who ever lived.
		Yates was raised by Ruth, known as Dookie, after her struggle to be a sculptor exasperated Yates' father so much that he left.
		Yates was a proud man, but his stubborn self-neglect forced friends like poet Grace Schulman and publisher Seymour Lawrence into becoming a 24-hour MASH unit that bailed him out of bar fights and checked him into mental institutions.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/20030727yates0727fnp5.asp (605 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Review \| Out of the ashes
		Richard Yates (1926-1992) was a much better writer than Exley, but his fate was distressingly similar.
		Yates did not go to university, partly because he had imbibed some of the artisanal anti-intellectualism of Hemingway, in which writers supposedly swaggered into life and fightingly "took on" their knuckly vocation.
		Yates was in some ways a larger and broader talent than this world allowed; but he was prey to its limitations, too, above all its stubborn anti-intellectualism and its fixed conviction that fiction can have nothing to do with "ideas".
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,1312156,00.html (1196 words)

	Richard Yates
		Still, Yates never achieved a major readership, and he took it hard — gaining a reputation as a sweet man quietly killing himself with drink, until he did indeed pass away in 1992 at the age of 66.
		But then, in January, Yates achieved what was, during his lifetime, every fiction writer's dream: the publication of one of his stories in the New Yorker, the magazine that had rejected his work when it was new.
		Yates was the final reader that night, and the short story he read — "Oh Joseph, I'm So Tired" — wasn't that short.
	www.mobylives.com /Richard_Yates.html (795 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Good School, a (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Richard Yates, who died in 1992, is today ranked by many readers, scholars, and critics alongside such titans of modern American ficiton as Updike, Roth, Irving, Vonnegut, and Mailer.
		Richard Yates is probably one of the greatest writers of the latter half of the 20th century.
		Richard Yates is one of the few truly great masters of 20th century fiction.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0385293658 (678 words)

	Richard Yates
		Yates is always right on the mark with his dialogue and descriptions.
		We had heard that Yates hung out there (in fact, he lived upstairs from it), so she was not surprised when she spotted him there.
		Yates talked about his daughter, of whom he was very proud: she was also a novelist.
	www.jukovsky.com /yates.html (958 words)

	HON. RICHARD YATES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Richard Yates was born on the 18th of January, 1818, in Warsaw, Gallatin county, Kentucky.
		Abner and Richard are at present residing in Jacksonville - also Millisent, wife of Wesley Mathers, and Catherine, residing with her sister, Mrs.
		Richard Yates was indebted for his early educational advantages to Morgan county, except one term in Miami University, at Oxford, Ohio.
	www.rootsweb.com /~ilmorgan/1894/yates.htm (378 words)

	Richard Yates' Classical Guitar Transcriptions
		Many of we RMCG participants are already familiar with Richard Yates' multi-various, multi-media contributions to the transcriptive precinct of our corpus--through his extensive web-site library of music, his column, "The Transcriber's Art", in the journal, Soundboard, his Mel Bay publications, among them.
		The rest of Yates’ introduction to Morley's Canzonets rehearses some of the more quotidian editorial problems facing a 21st-century scholar encountering music nearly half a millenium remote from his own epoch: the absence of tempo markings, bar lines, meter vagaries, voice alignments and residues, note durations and other messy contingencies.
		At bottom: it means re-enacting Yates’ examination, interpretation and traversing of the ebb and flow of those three human voices; it means hugging the shores of the sometimes remote, but always redolent rhythmic 'thee's and 'thou's', wave by wave, into an meaningful sea; it means musing on the inventory of pigments in your tonal palette.
	www.yatesguitar.com /morley/morleyreview.html (2378 words)

	RACING.UPS.COM Behind the Scenes Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Yates was eventually joined in the NEXTEL Cup garage area by his son, Doug Yates who oversees the Roush-Yates Engine program on behalf of Team Ford Racing.
		Richard Yates, the twin brother to Robert, is the man behind the scenes of RYR and he has been there since the organization opened its doors for business in 1988.
		Richard and Robert are the youngest of nine children born to a Baptist minister in Charlotte, N.C. Born only 19 minutes apart, the two were extremely close right from the start and went into business together unofficially at the tender age of eight.
	www.racing.ups.com /racing/news_results/article.cgi?file=excl_20050320_20050315 (886 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: Readings
		Though literary giants Richard Ford, Robert Stone, and Andre Dubus have long praised his work, Richard Yates' short stories have been out of print for 12 years.
		(Yates is particularly good at understanding the cruelty and terrors of childhood.) After listening to a classmate give a class report on a trip to see the movie Dr.
		The real spell that Yates casts is his ability, through clear, deceptively simple prose, to put you through the experience of being utterly alone.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2001-06-29/books_readings.html (879 words)

	Resurrection Blues
		Richard Yates (1926-1992) was one of the most spectacular literary voices our country has produced, yet most of his books were out of print when he died.
		The old rock ’n’ roll cliché holds true of Yates: Only 5,000 people read any one of his books when they came out, but 4,000 of those people went on to write books of their own.
		Yates understood his characters inside and out because he understood people; no American author has known himself — and the people around him — better.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/051701/ae.books.shtml (887 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "The Collected Stories of Richard Yates"
		Instead Yates points out Jack's own insecurities and pretensions -- his "jolly, noisy" going-away party is "closely attuned to the jaunty image of himself that he always hoped to convey to others" -- as well as his naked, naive desire for literary recognition, or at least significance.
		The beach house he rents is just as dank, grungy and uninviting as his New York apartment; the secretary girlfriend, Sally, who at first seemed so smart and independent, turns out to be needy and manipulative, in thrall to the scarily superficial rich woman in whose palatial house she lives.
		Richard Russo, in his perceptive, heartfelt introduction to the collection, captures the appeal nicely.
	www.salon.com /books/review/2001/06/19/yates/index2.html (755 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "The Collected Stories of Richard Yates" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Yates, who died in 1992, had a small but fiercely devoted following, especially among other fiction writers, and when his 1961 novel "Revolutionary Road" was restored to print last year, with a splendid introduction by Richard Ford, a new audience was introduced to Yates' crisp, distinctive voice.
		Now we have the collected stories as well, and belated as it may seem to Yates' admirers, 2001 turns out to be an auspicious moment for their arrival.
		In fact it's in the three stories that most clearly use autobiographical elements that Yates is at his fiercest and most devastating, as if he's entered into a calm fury of anti-heroic truth telling.
	archive.salon.com /books/review/2001/06/19/yates/print.html (1456 words)

	Grim reaper: Richard Yates's compassionate eye (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Yates, who died in 1992, is in the midst of a reappraisal.
		Yates gained fame early on as a novelist; Cheever didn't publish his first novel until age 45, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for The Stories of John Cheever at 66 -- the age at which Yates died.
		I knew Yates casually and briefly when he was teaching and I was a student at the Boston University Graduate Creative Writing Program at Boston University in the early '80s.
	www.providencephoenix.com /archive/books/01/05/17/YATES.html (1726 words)

	Catherine Brass Yates (Mrs. Richard Yates)
		Yates sewed while she posed, leaving little doubt about her industriousness.
		Yates a bony face, and that is precisely what Stuart had to portray.
		Yates was the wife of the senior partner in the New York firm of Yates & Pollock, importers of East Indian and European goods.
	www.nga.gov /collection/gallery/gg60a/gg60a-566.0.html (242 words)

	A Website for Richard Yates: News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates will be published in paperback on May 1, 2004.
		Richard Yates is featured in the Fall 2003 issue of the Harvard Review, Number 25.
		The Richard Yates Discussion Board is up and running.
	www.tbns.net /elevenkinds/yatesnews.html (302 words)

	Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service: `The Collected Stories of Richard Yates,' by Richard Yates; Henry Holt & ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The word on Richard Yates is that he's a late, great giant who was grossly under appreciated in his lifetime and shamefully forgotten since his death in 1992.
		A writer's writer who came of age during World War II, Yates is a chronological link between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Raymond Carver in the all-too-realistic literature of collapsing American dreams.
		Much of Yates' reputation among his admirers _ from Richard Russo, who wrote the introduction to "The Collected Stories of Richard Yates," to Richard Ford, who has praised Yates as "a writer too little appreciated" _ is...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:75512763&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (210 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tragically ignored during his lifetime, Richard Yates was the great nearly man of American letters, despite producing some of the most bewitching fiction of the late twentieth century, and inspiring writers like Richard Ford, Andre Dubus, and Richard Russo.
		Yates always teetered on the edge of some fresh calamity: he chain-smoked through bouts of tuberculosis and emphysema, even when permanently chained to oxygen cylinders, and burned down his own apartment at least once.
		However, the chaos of Richard Yates' personal life fed directly into his unflinching portraits of American middle-class desperation, leading him to write Revolutionary Road, the novel that made his reputation, The Easter Parade, and his extraordinary short fiction.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0413774325 (470 words)

	New England Review: Richard Yates on the Edge of Success (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As an acclaimed writer Yates was disinclined to suffer the insolence of waiters, cabbies, and cops who treated him like a common drunk, and this too was a very Fitzgeraldian animus.
		And then there was the time she ran into Yates in the subway: He'd just been to the dentist, he told her, and found out he had leukoplakia (white precancerous patches in the mouth); the dentist had advised him to stop smoking.
		Yates had no proper publicity shots to give her-he thought his portrait on the book jacket made him look effeminate-so Schulman arranged a session with the photographer Duane Michals.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3802/is_200307/ai_n9255581 (1186 words)

	USGenWeb, ILGenWeb - Illinois History Project - Governor Richard Yates
		Richard Yates, the "War Governor," 1861-4, was born Jan. 18, 1818, on the banks of the Ohio River, at Warsaw, Gallatin Co., Ky. His father moved in 1831 to Illinois, and after stopping for a time in Springfield, settled at Island Grove, Sangamon County.
		It was during Yates' second term in Congress that the great question of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise was agitated, and the bars laid down for reopening the dreaded anti-slavery question.
		Yates occupied the chair of State during the most critical period of our country's history.
	www.rootsweb.com /~ilhistor/governors/yates.html (981 words)

	A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates - Product Details \| GamingHaven.com Store
		richard yates was one of the best writers i have ever known or read.
		To call Richard Yates's life a tragedy is an understatement: tuberculosis, emphysema, a 4-pack a day cigarette habit, severe alcoholism, and poorly regulated manic-depressive illness all were combined in a man who seemed hell bent on destroying his health and many of the intimate relationships he so desperately needed.
		Yates was a man who kept writing, even as his health and sanity faded, and who preserved a relentless commitment to both his artistic vision and to his craft.
	store.gaminghaven.com /details.rbx/0312287216 (1064 words)

	The Collected Stories of Richard Yates by Richard Yates
		Richard Yates was one of the most powerful, compassionate, and technically accomplished writers of America's postwar generation.
		His work inspired such diverse talents as Richard Ford, Ann Beattie, André Dubus, Robert Stone, and Kurt Vonnegut, and his 1961 novel, Revolutionary Road, is an acknowledged classic of American literature.
		Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the white-collar despair of Manhattan office workers, the grim humour that attends life on a tuberculosis ward, or the heartbreak of a single mother with artistic pretensions, Yates ruthlessly examines every frayed corner and tear in the American dream.
	www.methuen.co.uk /collectedstoriesofrichardyatespb.html (262 words)

	Out of Oblivion / A writer rejoices that Richard Yates' stories are back in print
		Yates' characters misunderstand and miscalculate; they soldier on when their unit is retreating.
		Yates' stories are unflinching and uncompromising, complex at the same time they seem to unfold naturally and simply.
		You worry that if anyone as good as Richard Yates could fade, people no longer know how to read for subtlety, and also that this time the critics might have been too critical and really finished him off.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/05/06/RV165820.DTL (947 words)

	Ploughshares, the literary journal
		Authors & Articles > An Interview with Richard Yate...
		Richard Yates was born in Yonkers, New York, in 1926.
		Yates is presently Distinguished Writer in Residence at Wichita State University, and a new book is in progress.
	www.pshares.org /issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=128 (5307 words)

	identity theory \| the narrative thread - richard russo
		Richard Russo: My standard line is that he changed my life by making Nobody’s Fool and then getting me into screenwriting and I wanted him to know that there were no hard feelings.
		What I know of Yates and what I got from your introduction to his Collected Stories got me to thinking about a seeming paradox of a writer appreciating a writer or being a fan of a writer, and even when that writer does not write like the person he admires.
		To read Yates is to read these stories of these symbiotic relationships that are an expression of loneliness and the you watch as these people that have so little, just this one friend or something like that, and you see that ripped away.
	www.identitytheory.com /people/birnbaum20.html (6194 words)

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