`The Collected Stories of Richard Yates,' by Richard Yates; Henry Holt & Co.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | June 13, 2001| | Copyright

The word on Richard Yates is that he's a late, great giant who was grossly under appreciated in his lifetime and shamefully forgotten since his death in 1992. A writer's writer who came of age during World War II, Yates is a chronological link between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Raymond Carver in the all-too-realistic literature of collapsing American dreams.

Much of Yates' reputation among his admirers _ from Richard Russo, who wrote the introduction to "The Collected Stories of Richard Yates," to Richard Ford, who has praised Yates as "a writer too little appreciated" ...

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