Richard Yates
January 2, 2009
Every young writer wants to create The Great American Novel. With Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates did, and the upcoming movie will bring much-deserved attention to Yates, whose work has not received the general acclaim it should. Along with Revolutionary Road, Yates also wrote an absolutely brilliant and heartbreaking collection of stories, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness. You can read an excellent primer of Yates’ life and work here. There’s also a modest but nicely assembled tribute site to Yates here.
Posted by Bill Trippe at January 2, 2009 12:34 PM