Richard Ellmann

Richard Ellmann (born March 15, 1918, Highland Park, Michigan, U.S.—died May 13, 1987, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England) was an American literary critic and scholar, an expert on the life and works of James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, Oscar Wilde, and other modern British and Irish writers. Ellmann graduated from Yale University (Ph.D., 1947) and taught at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, from 1951 to 1968, at Yale from 1968 to 1970, and at the University of Oxford...