Richard Ellmann
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
- ^ "National Book Awards - 1960" .
- ↑ Pulitzer Prize Winner
- ^ American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Book of Members ( PDF ). Retrieved April 18, 2016
- ^ Members: Richard Ellmann. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 1, 2019 .
- ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 24, 2020 .
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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 |