Author of the widely acclaimed first novel REVOLUTIONARY ROAD, RICHARDYATES appeared in the ATLANTIC in 1953, when he won the top prize for his Atlantic “First" “Jody Rolled the Bones.” The story which follows is from his new hook, ELEVEN KINDS OF LONELINESS, to he published this month under the Atlantic-Little, Brown imprint.
RICHARD YATES went straight from his prep school into the Army, where he served as a rifleman in the closing phase of the war in Europe. There followed what he calls an unimpressive series of newspaper and publicity jobs in New York: — brightened by the evening courses in Creative Writing which he took at Columbia. In 1951 he plunged into free-lancing and since then has been living and writing abroad.