Richard Yates
Born
in Yonkers, New York, The United States
February 03, 1926
Died
November 07, 1992
Genre
Influences
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Revolutionary Road
131 editions
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1961
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The Easter Parade
63 editions
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published
1976
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Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
7 editions
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1962
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The Collected Stories
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15 editions
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published
2001
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Disturbing the Peace
33 editions
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published
1975
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Cold Spring Harbor
33 editions
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published
1986
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Young Hearts Crying
28 editions
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published
1984
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A Good School
5 editions
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published
1978
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A Special Providence
4 editions
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1969
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Liars in Love
25 editions
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1981
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“if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.”
― Revolutionary Road
― Revolutionary Road
“It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.”
― Revolutionary Road
― Revolutionary Road
Polls
February 2017 New School Classic Poll
Beloved by Toni Morrison, 324 pgs, 1987
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence, 374, 1928
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, 607 pgs, 1994
I, Claudius by Robert Graves, 468 pgs, 1934
The Cider House Rules by John Irving, 973 pgs, 1985
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, 231 pgs, 1939
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, 355 pgs, 1961
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham, 228 pgs, 1951
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler, 216 pgs, 1940
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini, 236 pgs, 1922
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham, 314 pgs, 1944
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges, 174 pgs, 1944
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich, 367 pgs, 1984
Centennial by James A. Michener, 1056 pgs, 1974
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