book of memoirs, The View from Here, and two travel books about his art trips to Italy, the highly acclaimed Beyond the Alps (1961) and South of Rome (1964). In 1967, his final short story, entitled “The Setting-In of Winter,” was published in The New Yorker on December 9, 1967. Bibliography Novels The Eater of Darkness (Contact Editions, Paris 1926; Macaulay, New York, 1929; republished by Putnam, 1959) Yesterday’s Burdens (1933; rpt. 1975, 2020) The Bitter Season (1946) Wisteria Cottage (1948) (also known as The Night Before Dying) The Farther Shore (1955) Short fiction Collections All the Year Round (1943) The Hour After Westerly (1957) The Man Just Ahead of You (1965) Stories Non-fiction The Outlaw Years (1930) Reviews Peter Blume at the Durlacher Gallery, Robert Delaunay at the Sidney Janis Gallery, and William Glackens at the Kraushaar Galleries. Reviews Rembrandt at the Wildenstein Gallery; Gris at the Buchholz Gallery. The View from Here (1960). Memoir Beyond the Alps (1961) South of Rome (1965) References Notes Further reading Pierce, Constance. "Gertrude Stein and her Thoroughly Modern Protege." Modern Fiction Studies 42.3 (Autumn 1996): 607–25. Pierce, Constance. "Language • Silence • Laughter: The Silent Film and the 'Eccentric' Modernist Writer." SubStance 16.1 (1987): 59–75. Roza, Mathilde, & Mearns, Jack. "Collecting Robert M. Coates". Firsts, 17.8 (2007): 18–27. 1897 births 1973 deaths American art critics 20th-century American novelists The New Yorker critics American male novelists American male short story writers 20th-century American short story writers 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers American male non-fiction writers Writers from New Haven, Connecticut