Richard Ellmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Richard Ellmann

American literary critic and biographer

Date of Birth: 15-Mar-1918

Place of Birth: Highland Park, Michigan, United States

Date of Death: 13-May-1987

Profession: writer, biographer, journalist, literary critic, literary scholar

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Richard David Ellmann (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.