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Richard Ellmann
American writer and literary critic
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.
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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.
Life
Ellmann was born in Highland Park, Michigan, the second of three sons of James Isaac Ellman, a lawyer, and his wife Jeanette (née Barsook).
His father was a Romanian Jew and his mother was a Ukrainian Jew from Kyiv. Ellmann served in the United States Navy and Office of Strategic Services during World War II.[2] He studied at Yale University, receiving his B.A.
in 1939, his M.A. in 1941, and his PhD (fo