Richard Yates

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Emerging from a turbulent childhood in Yonkers, New York, he honed his writing at Avon Old Farms School, served in Europe during World II, and returned to New York to work as a journalist, ghostwriter for Robert F. Kennedy, and publicity writer for Remington Rand. His first novel, Revolutionary Road, earned a National Book Award nomination, while an unproduced screenplay of William Styron’s Lie Do… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources