His lung troubles caused him to start every morning by vomiting, but he remained a four-pack-a-day smoker until a year before his death at sixty-six, despite once setting his apartment on fire. After his divorce, he lived in awful squalor, spending his time drinking, sobering up, and writing. Yates was an alcoholic and a badly behaved drunk. He married, had two children, moved to Paris for a period, and divorced. He did not go to college, feeling that a writer didn’t need a traditional education, a decision he would always regret. Yates volunteered for a dangerous mission and permanently damaged his lungs. Yates flourished as a writer in high school, but had a difficult experience in the army, which he joined at age eighteen, during the last year of the war. After the divorce, his mother moved to Paris to study sculpture. His parents were divorced by the time he was three. Richard Yates was the child of an unhappy marriage.
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