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Richard Ellmann
AuthorBooks · Second hand1918-1987
Richard David Ellmann, FBA, was an American literary critic and biographer of the Irish writers James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats. He won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction for James Joyce (1959), one of the most acclaimed literary biographies of the 20th century. Its 1982 revised edition won James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Ellmann was a liberal humanist, and his academic work focuses on the major modernist writers of the 20th century.
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Birth
1918
Death
1987
First book
1959
Years writing
67
Richard Ellmann was a prominent 20th-century American literary critic and biographer.
His most celebrated work is the definitive biography of the writer James Joyce.
In addition to Joyce, he dedicated much of his research to the figure of W. B. Yeats.
Throughout his prolific career, he published a total of 76 works focused on literature.
Born in Highland Park, his legacy remains an essential reference for scholars of English literature.