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Richard Yates

1926 - 1992

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Richard Walden Yates (February 3, 1926 – November 7, 1992) was an American fiction writer identified with the mid-century "Age of Anxiety". His first novel, Revolutionary Road, was a finalist for the 1962 National Book Award, while his first short story collection, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, brought comparisons to James Joyce. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Yates has received more than 18,804 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Richard Yates is the 3,335th most popular writer (down from 2,750th in 2019), the 4,373rd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,515th in 2019) and the 382nd most popular American Writer.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.41

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  • 3.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Richard Yates ranks 3,335 out of 5,755Before him are Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, Alexander Neckam, John Ashbery, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Cui Hao, and Elin Pelin. After him are Shibli Nomani, Ida Fink, Sima Tan, Concepción Arenal, Jeton Kelmendi, and William Hope Hodgson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Richard Yates ranks 218Before him are André Delvaux, Fernando J. Corbató, Johanna Quandt, Julie Adams, Bal Thackeray, and Julio Pérez. After him are Bhupen Hazarika, Carl Adam Petri, William Porter, Christine Jorgensen, Ibrahim Nasir, and Allan Sandage. Among people deceased in 1992, Richard Yates ranks 132Before him are Emilio Recoba, Michel Berger, Hammer DeRoburt, Jack Arnold, Sylvain Arend, and Chuck Connors. After him are Viktor Grishin, Sándor Veress, Nie Rongzhen, Piotr Jaroszewicz, Gerard K. O'Neill, and Farag Foda.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Yates ranks 4,373 out of 18,182Before him are Alice Coltrane (1937), Wil Wheaton (1972), Edward Robinson (1794), John Corbett (1961), Billy Herrington (1969), and Lenny Wilkens (1937). After him are Charles F. Brush (1849), Greg Mankiw (1958), Harrison Ford (1884), Tom Mix (1880), Patricia Kennedy Lawford (1924), and Carl Wilson (1946).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Richard Yates ranks 382Before him are Diane Disney Miller (1933), Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (1822), William Steig (1907), James Salter (1925), A. Merritt (1884), and John Ashbery (1927). After him are Charles Fort (1874), Vince Gilligan (1967), Michael Cristofer (1945), Lillian Hellman (1905), Francis Scott Key (1779), and Robert Ettinger (1918).