Oscar Wilde

Pulitzer Prize Winner

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On sale Nov 05, 1988 | 736 Pages | 9780394759845

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize


"A master of the biographer's art. . . . A distinguished book. . . . Ellmann has the first, indispensable virtue of telling his story well—not just the big story but the lesser stories that lie coiled inside it." —New York Review of Books

"It is difficult to imagine a more comprehensive, measured and fascinating account." —Time
  • WINNER | 1989
    Pulitzer Prize
  • WINNER | 1988
    National Book Critics Circle Awards
Richard Ellmann, during a long and distinguished career, won international recognition as a scholar, teacher of English literature, critic, and biographer. His magisterial life of James Joyce has been widely acclaimed as the greatest literary biography of the century. Ellmann was born in Highland Park, Michigan, in 1918. He studied at Yale and at Trinity College in Dublin. He taught at Harvard, Yale, Northwestern, Emory, the University of Chicago, Indiana University, and Oxford, where he was Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature and Fellow of New College. His James Joyce (National Book Award, 1959) was preceded by Yeats: The Man and the Masks and The Identity of Yeats, and was followed by—among other greatly praised books—two volumes of Joyce letters, Eminent Domain, and Four Dubliners. Ellmann died in May 1987, in Oxford, soon after completing Oscar Wilde, to which he had devoted some two decades of study, research, and writing. View titles by Richard Ellmann

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize


"A master of the biographer's art. . . . A distinguished book. . . . Ellmann has the first, indispensable virtue of telling his story well—not just the big story but the lesser stories that lie coiled inside it." —New York Review of Books

"It is difficult to imagine a more comprehensive, measured and fascinating account." —Time

Awards

  • WINNER | 1989
    Pulitzer Prize
  • WINNER | 1988
    National Book Critics Circle Awards

Author

Richard Ellmann, during a long and distinguished career, won international recognition as a scholar, teacher of English literature, critic, and biographer. His magisterial life of James Joyce has been widely acclaimed as the greatest literary biography of the century. Ellmann was born in Highland Park, Michigan, in 1918. He studied at Yale and at Trinity College in Dublin. He taught at Harvard, Yale, Northwestern, Emory, the University of Chicago, Indiana University, and Oxford, where he was Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature and Fellow of New College. His James Joyce (National Book Award, 1959) was preceded by Yeats: The Man and the Masks and The Identity of Yeats, and was followed by—among other greatly praised books—two volumes of Joyce letters, Eminent Domain, and Four Dubliners. Ellmann died in May 1987, in Oxford, soon after completing Oscar Wilde, to which he had devoted some two decades of study, research, and writing. View titles by Richard Ellmann

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