Robert Myron Coates

Born in New Haven, Connecticut
April 6, 1897
died of cancer February 8, 1973

Royal Canadian Navy pilot, WWI

Lost Generation

The New Yorker art reviewer
late 1920s - 1967
Robert M. Coates


five novels

    • The Eater of Darkness
    • Yesterday's Burdens
    • Wisteria Cottage
    • The Bitter Season
    • The Farther Shore
  • four nonfiction books including an autobiography
  • three collections of short stories.

Best American Short Stories in 1939, 1953, 1956, and 1959

The Eater of Darkness | Postmodernism | Why Not Coates?