diff --git a/src/com/esotericsoftware/yamlbeans/YamlReader.java b/src/com/esotericsoftware/yamlbeans/YamlReader.java
index 52aba27..4fc2486 100644
--- a/src/com/esotericsoftware/yamlbeans/YamlReader.java
+++ b/src/com/esotericsoftware/yamlbeans/YamlReader.java
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 import com.esotericsoftware.yamlbeans.scalar.ScalarSerializer;
 import com.esotericsoftware.yamlbeans.tokenizer.Tokenizer.TokenizerException;
 
+import java.io.Closeable;
 import java.io.FileReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.Reader;
@@ -42,7 +43,7 @@
 
 /** Deserializes Java objects from YAML.
  * @author <a href="mailto:misc@n4te.com">Nathan Sweet</a> */
-public class YamlReader {
+public class YamlReader implements Closeable {
 	private final YamlConfig config;
 	Parser parser;
 	private final Map<String, Object> anchors = new HashMap();
@@ -430,4 +431,4 @@ public static void main (String[] args) throws Exception {
 		YamlReader reader = new YamlReader(new FileReader("test/test.yml"));
 		System.out.println(reader.read());
 	}
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/src/com/esotericsoftware/yamlbeans/YamlWriter.java b/src/com/esotericsoftware/yamlbeans/YamlWriter.java
index fd9db01..ae53601 100644
--- a/src/com/esotericsoftware/yamlbeans/YamlWriter.java
+++ b/src/com/esotericsoftware/yamlbeans/YamlWriter.java
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 
 package com.esotericsoftware.yamlbeans;
 
+import java.io.Closeable;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.Writer;
 import java.lang.reflect.Array;
@@ -46,7 +47,7 @@
 
 /** Serializes Java objects as YAML.
  * @author <a href="mailto:misc@n4te.com">Nathan Sweet</a> */
-public class YamlWriter {
+public class YamlWriter implements Closeable {
 	private final YamlConfig config;
 	private final Emitter emitter;
 	private boolean started;