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Yates directed Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a 2016 film which is the first in a series of five instalments based on J. K. Rowling's book, set in the world of her Harry Potter novels. [89] David Heyman and Harry Potter screenwriter Steve Kloves joined Yates and J. K. Rowling in developing the script. [90]
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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.
Revolutionary Road is the debut novel by the American author Richard Yates.It was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1962, along with Catch-22 and The Moviegoer.When published by Atlantic-Little, Brown in 1961, it received critical acclaim, and The New York Times reviewed it as "beautifully crafted ... a remarkable and deeply troubling book."
[2] The publication of The Easter Parade marked the beginning of a relatively stable and productive period for Yates, and the book has been championed by Joan Didion, [3] David Sedaris, [4] Kurt Vonnegut, Larry McMurtry and Tao Lin, among others. The novel was a finalist for the 1976 National Book Critics Circle Award. [5]
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness is a collection of short stories written by Richard Yates from 1951 to 1961. All of the stories also appeared in the posthumously released Richard Yates, The Collected Stories (2004), which includes other stories.
The Tichborne Claimant is a 1998 British drama film directed by David Yates from a screenplay by Joe Fisher. The film stars John Kani, Robert Pugh, Stephen Fry, Robert Hardy and John Gielgud. It is based on the Tichborne case, a historical case of identity theft.
Yates' first feature as director was Summer Holiday (1963), a "lightweight" [6] vehicle for Cliff Richard. It was the second most popular movie at the British box office in 1963. [7] Yates had seen the original Royal Court production of N.F. Simpson's play One Way Pendulum and got the job of making the film version released in 1964.