About Richard Ellmann
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 academic work focuses on the major modernist writers of the 20th century.
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Awards & Honors
Pulitzer Prize for Biography
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
National Book Award
George Polk Award
Guggenheim Fellowship
National Book Award for Nonfiction
Wilbur Cross Medal
John Addison Porter Prize
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Fellow of the British Academy
honorary doctor of the University of Gothenburg
National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography
