Richard Yates was born in 1926 in New York and lived in California. His prize- winning stories began to appear in 1953 and his first novel, Revolutionary Road , was nominated for the National Book Award in 1961. He is the author of eight other works, including the novels A Good School , The Easter Parade , and Disturbing the Peace , and two collections of short stories, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness and Liars in Love. He died in 1992.