- Subject of a biography entitled A Tragic Honesty by Blake Bailey. Yates also wrote civil rights speeches which were delivered by Robert Kennedy.
- In 1961 John Frankenheimer wanted to make a film version of "Revolutionary Road" but couldn't find backing for such a project. Frankenheimer then hired Yates to write a screenplay for William Styron's novel, "Lie Down in Darkness." Both Frankenheimer and Styron were pleased by Yates' script but once again backing for the project failed to materialize.
- Yates was living in Alabama at the time of his death because in 1990 he had moved to Tuscaloosa to be a visiting professor of writing in the English Department at the University of Alabama. He continued to live in Tuscaloosa after the endowment term ended and died soon afterward in a hospital in nearby Birmingham.
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