Richard Yates

Richard Yates (born February 3, 1926, Yonkers, New York, U.S.—died November 7, 1992, Birmingham, Alabama) was an American writer of novels and short stories. Yates was a realist whose works were mostly set in New York or New England and explored the aspirations and disappointments of middle-class people during the post-1945 “Age of Anxiety.” He has often been considered a “writer’s writer” who garnered acclaim from his literary colleagues but lacked commercial success during his...