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- Richard Yates was born on February 3, 1926 in Yonkers, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Revolutionary Road (2008), The Bridge at Remagen (1969) and Lie Down in Darkness. He was married to Martha Speers and Sheila Bryant. He died on November 7, 1992 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
- SpousesMartha Speers(1968 - 1975) (divorced)Sheila Bryant(1948 - 1960) (divorced)
- Subject of a biography entitled A Tragic Honesty by Blake Bailey. Yates also wrote civil rights speeches which were delivered by Robert Kennedy.
- In 1961 John Frankenheimer wanted to make a film version of "Revolutionary Road" but couldn't find backing for such a project. Frankenheimer then hired Yates to write a screenplay for William Styron's novel, "Lie Down in Darkness." Both Frankenheimer and Styron were pleased by Yates' script but once again backing for the project failed to materialize.
- Yates was living in Alabama at the time of his death because in 1990 he had moved to Tuscaloosa to be a visiting professor of writing in the English Department at the University of Alabama. He continued to live in Tuscaloosa after the endowment term ended and died soon afterward in a hospital in nearby Birmingham.
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