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  1. 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.

  2. May 9, 2024 · Richard Ellmann (born March 15, 1918, Highland Park, Michigan, U.S.—died May 13, 1987, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England) was an American literary critic and scholar, an expert on the life and works of James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, Oscar Wilde, and other modern British and Irish writers.

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  3. May 14, 1987 · Richard Ellmann, whose 1959 biography of James Joyce became the definitive work on the Irish novelist, died yesterday in Oxford, England. He was 69 years old.

  4. Richard David Ellmann was a prominent American literary critic and biographer of the Irish writers James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats.

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    • May 13, 1987
    • March 15, 1918
  5. Learn about Richard Ellmann (1918—1987), an American scholar and biographer who wrote influential works on Yeats, Joyce, and Wilde. Find his publications, awards, and related entries in Oxford Reference.

  6. RichaRd Ellmann was fortunate to begin his career just as modernism was becoming an admissible academic topic. It was his genius to give it critical mass in his work on the three Irish titans, Yeats, Joyce and Wilde.

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  8. Richard Ellmann's James Joyce (1959, 1982) has been widely recog. nized as a masterful and definitive life, notable for its use of Joyce's art. to illuminate his life, for its exhaustive research, and for its dazzling. prose. In his review of Ellmann's 1982 revised edition, Anthony.