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  1. 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.

  2. Mar 11, 2024 · Richard Ellmann 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. Ellmann graduated from Yale University (Ph.D., 1947) and taught at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois,

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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 Ellmann. Richard David Ellmann was a prominent American literary critic and biographer of the Irish writers James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats. Ellmann's James Joyce (1959), for which he won the National Book Award in 1960, is considered one of the most acclaimed literary biographies of the 20th century and the 1982 ...

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  5. The 2024 Richard Ellmann Lectures are in honor of the 10th anniversary of Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney’s death. Chosen by Ellmann himself, Seamus Heaney gave the inaugural lectures at Emory in 1988, a joyous occasion remembered here by the founder of the series, Ron Schuchard.

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  7. 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 ...

  8. May 15, 1987 · OXFORD, ENGLAND -- Richard Ellmann, 69, a widely acclaimed biographer of James Joyce, died May 13 at Radcliffe Infirmary here. The cause of death was not reported, but friends said he had suffered ...

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