James Joyce's Hundredth Birthday. Side and Front Views. A Lecture Delivered at the Library of Congress on March 19, 1982 by Richard Ellmann

by Richard Ellmann

Book by Ellmann, Richard

Paperback

First published January 1, 1982

About the author

Richard David Ellmann 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.