Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Richard Yates
Born: February 3, 1926
Died: November 7, 1992 (aged 66)
Bio: Richard Yates was an American fiction writer, identified with the mid-century ‘Age of Anxiety’.
Known for:
- Revolutionary Road (1961)
- The Easter Parade (1976)
- Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (1962)
- Disturbing the Peace (1975)
- A Good School (1978)