Meet Richard Yates

by Elizabeth Cox

Originally published on October 1, 2000

Richard Yates (1926-1992) was known as the “great writer of the Age of Anxiety,” a man who wrote deftly about lostness. His first novel, Revolutionary Road (1961), was an instant success, a finalist for the National Book Award alongside Catch-22 and The Moviegoer, and equally deserving. A year later, Atlantic-Little, Brown published his first stories [...]