Richard Ellmann

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Richard David Ellmann (born March 15, 1918 in Highland Park , Michigan , † May 13, 1987 in Oxford , England ) was an American literary scholar , literary critic , writer and biographer . He became famous for his National Book Award- winning biography of James Joyce . Until recently he devoted himself to the biography of Oscar Wilde .

For the Oscar Wilde biography, Ellmann received the Pulitzer Prize in 1989 . It also served as a template for the film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's life by director Brian Gilbert .

In 1969 Ellmann was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1971 to the American Academy of Arts and Letters . In 1979 he became a member of the British Academy .

The writer Lucy Ellmann is his daughter.

literature

  • Nicolas Barker: Richard Ellmann, 1918–1987 . In: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy . tape XIII , 2014, p. 179-192 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).

Works (selection)

  • 1948: Yeats: The Man And The Masks
  • 1954: The Identity of Yeats
  • 1959: James Joyce
  • 1970: Eminent Domain: Yeats among Wilde, Joyce, Pound, Eliot, and Auden
  • 1971: Literary Biography: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford on May 4, 1971
  • 1972: Ulysses on the Liffey
  • 1976: Golden Codgers: Biographical Speculations
  • 1977: The Consciousness of Joyce
  • 1982: James Joyce's hundredth birthday, side and front views: A lecture delivered at the Library of Congress on March 10, 1982
  • 1984: Oscar Wilde at Oxford
  • 1985: WB Yeats's Second Puberty; A Lecture Delivered At The Library Of Congress On April 2, 1984
  • 1987: Oscar Wilde
  • 1987: Four Dubliners: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "National Book Awards - 1960" .
  2. ↑ Pulitzer Prize Winner
  3. ^ American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Book of Members ( PDF ). Retrieved April 18, 2016
  4. ^ Members: Richard Ellmann. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 1, 2019 .
  5. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 24, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Ellmann, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ellmann, Richard David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American literary scholar and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Highland Park, Michigan
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1987
Place of death Oxford , England