Richard Ellmann
1918
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1987
country of citizenship: United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Yale University, University of Dublin
occupation: writer, literary critic, biographer, journalist, literary scholar
award received: Guggenheim Fellowship, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, National Book Award, George Polk Award, John Addison Porter Prize, National Book Award for Nonfiction, Wilbur Cross Medal, honorary doctor of the University of Gothenburg, Fellow of the British Academy, National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography
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), which is one of the most acclaimed literary biographies of the 20th century. Its 1982 revised edition was similarly recognised with the award of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Ellmann was a liberal humanist, and his academic work focused on the major modernist writers of the twentieth century. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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