![]() ![]() degree (an earlier form of the M.Litt) from Trinity College Dublin, where he was resident while researching his biography of Yeats. in 1941, and his PhD (for which he won the John Addison Porter Prize) in 1947. He studied at Yale University, receiving his B.A. Ellmann served in the United States Navy and Office of Strategic Services during World War II. His father was a Romanian Jew and his mother was a Ukrainian Jew from Kyiv. ![]() Ellmann was a liberal humanist, and his academic work focused on the major modernist writers of the twentieth century.Įllmann was born in Highland Park, Michigan, the second of three sons of James Isaac Ellman, a lawyer, and his wife Jeanette (née Barsook). Its 1982 revised edition was similarly recognised with the award of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. National Book Award for Nonfiction for James Joyce (1959), which is one of the most acclaimed literary biographies of the 20th century. Richard David Ellmann, FBA (Ma– May 13, 1987) was an American literary critic and biographer of the Irish writers James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats. ![]()
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