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Richard Ellmann
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Born
Richard David Ellmann

(1918-03-15)March 15, 1918
Highland Park, Michigan, U.S.
DiedMay 13, 1987(1987-05-13) (aged 69)
Oxford, England, UK
Occupations
  • Literary critic
  • biographer
SpouseMary Ellmann
Children3, including Lucy Ellmann
Parents
  • James Isaac Ellman
  • Jeanette Barsook

Richard David Ellmann, FBA (March 15, 1918 – May 13, 1987) 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),[1] 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.

  1. ^ "National Book Awards – 1960". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 19 March 2012. It contains Ellman's acceptance speech. Archived 12 November 2017 at the Wayback Machine

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