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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), 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.
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GenderMale
Birthday1918-03-15
Deathday1987-05-13 (69 years old)
Birth PlaceHighland Park, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
AwardsFellow of the British Academy, John Addison Porter Prize, Wilbur Cross Medal, National Book Award for Nonfiction, Guggenheim Fellowship, George Polk Award, National Book Award, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography, honorary doctor of the University of Gothenburg
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