“Laugh? I Thought I’d Die!!”: Richard Yates’s Unpublished Letters
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Courtesy of the Estate of Richard Yates.
Richard Yates has a reputation for bleakness. But while the works for which he is best known—the novels Revolutionary Road (1961) and The Easter Parade (1976), as well as the story collection Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (1962)—do feature a cast of unhappy souls, they are also often funny. So are his letters, which have never before been published.
Yates’s papers, maintained by his three daughters, include decades of correspondence; this selection of
Richard Yates has a reputation for bleakness. But while the works for which he is best known—the novels Revolutionary Road (1961) and The Easter Parade (1976), as well as the story collection Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (1962)—do feature a cast of unhappy souls, they are also often funny. So are his letters, which have never before been published.
Yates’s papers, maintained by his three daughters, include decades of correspondence; this selection of
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