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
165 editions
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1961
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The Easter Parade
78 editions
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1976
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Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
34 editions
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1962
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The Collected Stories
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18 editions
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published
2001
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Disturbing the Peace
45 editions
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1975
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Cold Spring Harbor
6 editions
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1986
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Young Hearts Crying
37 editions
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published
1984
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A Good School
37 editions
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1978
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A Special Providence
34 editions
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1969
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Liars in Love
36 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
April 2016 New School Classic Group Read
1927, To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, 209 pages
1966, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, 407 pages
1973, Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, 302 pages
1961, Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, 346 pages
1969, The Godfather by Mario Puzo, 448 pages
1905, Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster, 147 pages
1963, The Clocks by Agatha Christie, 381 pages
1961, Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein, 528 pages
1962, The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick, 259 pages
1994, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, 607 pages
1900, Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, 455 pages
1937, Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato, 256 pages
1957, The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham, 220 pages
1969, them by Joyce Carol Oates, 576 pages
1962, Big Sur by Jack Kerouac, 256 pages
1957, The Door Into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein, 304 pages
1929, Cimarron by Edna Ferber, 400 pages
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