Richard Yates was born in 1926 in New York and lived in
California. His prize-winning stories began to appear in 1953 and
his first novel, Revolutionary Road, was nominated for the National
Book Award in 1961. He is the author of eight other works,
including the novels A Good School, The Easter Parade,
and Disturbing the Peace, and two collections of short
stories, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness and Liars in Love. He
died in 1992.
Richard Price is the author of seven novels, including
Clockers, Freedomland, and Lush Life.
“It is Yates’s relentless, unflinching investigation of our secret
hearts, and his speaking to us in language as clear and honest and
unadorned and unsentimental and uncompromising as his vision, that
makes him such a great writer.” —Richard Russo, Pulitzer
Prize-winning author of Empire Falls
“To me and to many other writers of my generation, the work of
Richard Yates came as a liberating force.... He was one of the most
important and influential writers of the second half of the
century.” —Robert Stone, acclaimed author of A Flag for
Sunrise
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