Awards & Winners

Richard Ellmann

Date of Birth 15-March-1918
Place of Birth Highland Park
(Wayne County, Michigan, Detroit, Metro Detroit, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Richard David Ellmann
Profession Writer, Literary critic, Biographer
Richard David Ellmann was a prominent 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, which is one of the most acclaimed literary biographies of the 20th century; its 1982 revised edition was similarly recognised with the award of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. A liberal humanist, Ellmann's academic work generally focused on the major modernist writers of the twentieth century.

Awards by Richard Ellmann

Check all the awards nominated and won by Richard Ellmann.

1989


Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
Honored for : Oscar Wilde: Biographie

Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography Oscar Wilde: Biographie

1988


1974


Nominations 1974 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Arts and Letters (Nonfiction) Golden Codgers: Biographical Speculations

1960


National Book Award for Nonfiction
Honored for : James Joyce

Nominations 1960 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Nonfiction James Joyce