age ~52
from Akron, OH
…Yates's first novel, Revolutionary Road, was a finalist for the National Book Award that year (alongside Walker Percy's The Moviegoer, which won, Joseph Heller's Catch-22, and J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey). Yates was championed by writers as diverse as Kurt Vonnegut, Dorothy Parker, Will...
…Aldridges work includes one of the first favorable notices of Joseph Hellers novel Something Happened and several essays on the creative strengths of Norman Mailer. It was Mailer who once remarked of Aldridge, I wonder if there ever was a critic who understood any better the roots of the pro...
Author
Joseph L. Heller
ISBN #
0714645583