Richard Ellmann

Richard Ellmann
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Born	Richard David Ellmann (1918-03-15)March 15, 1918 Highland Park, Michigan, U.S.
Died	May 13, 1987(1987-05-13) (aged 69) Oxford, England, UK
Occupations	Literary critic biographer
Spouse	Mary Ellmann
Children	3, 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.