Richard Yates
He was born in Yonkers, New York, in 1926. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army, where he contracted tuberculosis, and after the war, he worked as an advertising copywriter and screenwriter and wrote speeches for Robert Kennedy. His first novel, Revolutionary Road, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1962 and was adapted into a film by Sam Mendes in 2008. Yates wrote six more novels and two collections of short stories, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness and Liars in Love. He taught writing at Columbia, Iowa, Wichita, the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, and the New School for Social Research, and spent periods in Europe, Los Angeles, and New York. He died in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1992.
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