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	Richard Yates (novelist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Richard Yates (February 3, 1926 - November 7, 1992) was an American novelist and short story writer, a chronicler of mid-20th century mainstream American life, often cited as artistically residing somewhere between J.D. Salinger and John Cheever.
		Born on February 3, 1926 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) (197 words)

	Review \| A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates by Blake Bailey
		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)

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	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)

	Richard Yates
		As governor of Illinois (1861–65), Yates was active in raising troops (he gave Ulysses S. Grant his first Civil War commission) and managed to hold in check the powerful pro-Southern group in Illinois.
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	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0852994.html (263 words)

	identity theory \| interviews \| blake bailey
		Yates would—let's not lose sight of the fact that Yates, through whatever chaos of mental illness and alcoholism, was extremely disciplined as a writer.
		Yates was unjustly labeled that way because when you call someone a writer's writer, you are suggesting there is something esoteric about their writing—that it's self consciously experimental.
		Yates tells it like it is. Life is lonely and dull and disappointing, and the way you endure is to pretend to be something you are not and then inevitably you have to pay for that too.
	www.identitytheory.com /interviews/birnbaum155.php (6681 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)

	Grim reaper: Richard Yates's compassionate eye (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		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)

	JS Online: Writer's pain, his genius remembered
		Richard Yates' life was a relentless series of hopes, disappointments and recoveries.
		Borrowing his blueprint from Flaubert's "Madame Bovary," Yates told the story of a couple who are perilously dissatisfied with a 1950s variation of the American dream.
		Always clumsy, Yates tried to prove his worth on a German battlefield by volunteering to be a runner even though he had pneumonia.
	www.jsonline.com /enter/books/reviews/aug03/159212.asp?format=print (492 words)

	A Website for Richard Yates: Yates' Last Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		RICHARD YATES was American's finest post-war novelist and short story writer, but he was a surprisingly difficult man to contact.
		Yates was working on his eighth novel, which was going to be based on his experiences as Bobby Kennedy's speech-writer in 1962.
		After adjusting his oxygen, Yates drove past the wide malls and shopping plazas of Tuscaloosa to a steak house, the sort of plate his characters call a "nice" or a "decent place", which means it's pleasant but affordable.
	www.tbns.net /elevenkinds/bradfield.html (2309 words)

	The Anniston Star - A Tragic Honesty: Waiting for a break that never came
		Yates, born in 1926, served in World War II and was a single I.Q. point short of qualifying for officer training.
		Yates was, as Bailey portrays him, both a great writer and “almost a parody of the self-destructive personality.’’ He was a lifelong four-pack-a-day man. He chain smoked in a tuberculosis sanatorium and puffed on even when chained to oxygen cylinders, his lungs rotted with terminal emphysema.
		Yates entered in middle age on his “’second bachelorhood.’’ It was followed by a second doomed marriage.
	www.jaxnews.com /entertainment/2003/as-books-0913-0-3i12o3451.htm (1337 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)

	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 (1184 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)

	Australian Financial Review - When dreams exceed talent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Richard Yates was the muse of the manqué.
		Yates, it turns out, was dealt a poor hand in life (alcoholism, divorce, mental illness, poverty), then shuffled and reshuffled the same cards obsessively in his work.
		As Yates himself insisted, "All fiction is filled with technique." In the end, it seems almost beside the point whether his books were based on "real" people and events; his work endures because he was able to turn his unique experiences into universally recognisable human stories.
	afr.com /articles/2003/10/09/1065676089979.html (891 words)

	Yates, Richard on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		YATES, RICHARD [Yates, Richard] 1815-73, American political leader, b.
		As governor of Illinois (1861-65), Yates was active in raising troops (he gave Ulysses S. Grant his first Civil War commission) and managed to hold in check the powerful pro-Southern group in Illinois.
		Chris Stanford Getty Images 04-24-2004 TALLADEGA, AL - APRIL 24: Jack Rousch talks with Richard Yates in the garage during practice for the Aaron's 499 on April 24, 2004 at Talladega SuperSpeedway in Talladega, Alabama.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/E/E-Y1ates-R1i.asp (315 words)

	Amazon.com: The Collected Stories of Richard Yates: Books: Richard Yates,Richard Russo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Yates (1926-1992) was the consummate writer's writer; his fiction influenced a generation of young admirers, including Andre Dubus and Richard Ford, but he has yet to achieve the name recognition of many of his disciples.
		Richard Yates writes about middle class people and those who live life on the fringes, troubled kids, disgruntled veterans, lonely shop girls, frustrated suburban housewives, despondent white collar workers and the dark humor of life on a tuberculosis ward.
		Yates is absolutely unflinching in his examination of the average life.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312420811?v=glance (2204 words)

	Ploughshares, the literary journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		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.
		Apart from that book, I guess the first novelists I've paid the most attention to are those I've known personally at Iowa over the years.
	www.pshares.org /issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=128 (5307 words)

	Booktrust - information about new books, publishers and prizes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Richard Yates’ Revolutionary Road was published in 1961; it was his first novel and is generally regarded as is best.
		Yates brilliantly dissects the subsequent battle of wills between the couple: because Frank takes what he rather smugly considers to be a wry and existential approach to his boring job, he has no alternative but to acquiesce in April’s grand idea.
		Yates periodically gives us a break from the Wheelers to analyse the lives of some of their suburban acquaintances, but his focus on the frailties of these folk is similarly sharp; here too are tragic stories, leavened with fl humour.
	www.bookinformation.co.uk /reviews/books.php4?bookno=73 (513 words)

	Alibris: Russo
		A comic novel about a middle-aged novelist and teacher of creative writing at a Pennsylvania college ("the shallow end of the academic pool"), whose failures and cynicism threaten to destroy him, until he finds solace and meaning in the love of his family, his friends, and his work.
		Richard Russo's first novel is a classic portrait of American small town life in the second half of the 20th...
		Richard Yates, one of the great unsung American writers, specialized in the anguish of ordinary people who are defeated by life.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Russo (1244 words)

	Cheever's Keeper - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Magazine - News
		Today, after his widely praised 2003 biography of Richard Yates and with a new contract to write the life of John Cheever - two of Boston's literary legends - Blake Bailey is one of America's foremost literary biographers, this year winning...
		Today, after his widely praised 2003 biography of Richard Yates and with a new contract to write the life of John Cheever - two of Boston's literary legends - Blake Bailey is one of America's foremost literary biographers, this year winning a $42,000 Guggenheim fellowship.
		With Yates (1926-1992) and Cheever (1912-1982), Bailey is on somewhat similar literary ground.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/magazine/articles/2005/06/05/cheevers_keeper (969 words)

	The Collected Stories of Richard Yates by Richard Yates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		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.
		Published with a moving introduction by the novelist Richard Russo, The Collected Stories of Richard Yates will stand as its author's final masterpiece.
	www.methuen.co.uk /collectedstoriesofrichardyates.html (222 words)

	OpinionJournal - Taste
		The novelist of the early 20th century was far more likely to be concerned with reproducing the experience of the common man--or rallying on behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti--than forming committees in support of, say, Warren Harding or James B. Cox.
		Yates won the job--according to his biographer, Blake Bailey--by imagining Kennedy as a fictional character, "an attractive young man seductively persuading a group of female admirers to support the cause of civil rights." The Kennedy years were supremely suited to fiction at its most self-regarding.
		He looked at the two hapless novelists who at first were the only ones to volunteer--Lester Cohen and Harold Ornitz--and told them (as biographer Richard Lingeman recounts it) that he wanted to form a committee of "representative Americans" but, having failed, "we are now reduced to writers." Luckily for Mr.
	www.opinionjournal.com /taste/?id=110005826 (1102 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)

	Commentary Magazine - Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		...The dustjacket tells us that Richard Yates spent five years working on this, his first, novel, and since he is a writer of intelligence and imagination, I suspect that he spent a good part of the time asking himself if he could really bring off a book burdened by so much banal typicality...
		...The stress on their supposedly determinative childhoods undercuts the other issues being raised, for in making his tragedy neatly probable, Yates is saying in effect that the Wheelers probably would have failed under the best of circumstances...
		...Yates has the novelist's natural instinct for the nuances by which people give themselves away...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V32I1P95-1.htm (2019 words)

	Amazon.com: A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates: Books: Blake Bailey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Yates' work was far more autobiographical than I had ever realized, and Yates himself -- his actions, the things he says -- often resembles a character from one of his own books.
		In the decade since, Richard Yates has come to exemplify the brilliant and tormented writer -- the "writer's writer," the consummate crafstman -- who achieves posthumously some of the recognition and adulation largely (and unfairly) denied him in life, rendering him, of course, all the more tragic.
		Every word of "fiction" Yates wrote was autobiographical, often painfully and obviously so, and not even Bailey, a skillful writer, would presume to tell Yates's story better than Yates told it himself in his work.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312287216?v=glance (1871 words)

	Salon.com books \| Salon recommends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Richard Ford's intriguing essay on "Revolutionary Road" in the New York Times Book Review sent me looking for Richard Yates' acclaimed 1961 novel, and I was just as taken with it as Ford promised.
		Yates' perfectly modulated prose is a delight to read -- and as a special bonus, Richard Ford's essay serves as the introduction to the new edition from Vintage.
		The renowned novelist opens up on the subject of his famously vile father, Sir Kingsley, and the $30,000 fortune he spent repairing his own famously vile teeth.
	archive.salon.com /books/feature/2000/06/23/recs/print.html (605 words)

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