Ellmann joyce biography for kids

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Next biography on the biography shelf is James Joyce, by Richard Ellmann

You were bred, fed, fostered and fattened from holy childhood up in this two easter island … and now, forsooth, a nogger among the blankards of this dastard century, you have become of twosome twiminds forenenst gods, hidden and discovered, nay, condemned fool, anarch, egoarch, hiresiarch, you have reared your disunited kingdom on the vacuum of your own most intensely doubtful soul.
— James Joyce, “Finnegans Wake”

Richard Ellmann’s magnificent biography of James Joyce was first published in 1959, and a couple of different revised editions have been released since then. Nobody has even come close to approaching Ellmann’s accomplishment, which is why it is still seen as the definitive biography of James Joyce, and probably will for some years to come. Having read the book (of course), i

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Richard Ellmann facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Richard Ellmann
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Born	Richard David Ellmann (1918-03-15)March 15, 1918 Highland Park, Michigan, U.S.
Died	May 13, 1987(1987-05-13) (aged 69) Oxford, England, UK
Occupation	Literary critic biographer
Spouse(s)	Mary Ellmann
Children	3, including Lucy Ellmann
Parent(s)	James Isaac Ellman Jeanette Barsook

Richard David Ellmann, FBA (March 15, 1918 – May 13, 1987) was an American literary critic and biographer of the Irish writers James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler poet. 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 frikostig humanist, and his academic work focuses on the major modernist writers of the 20th century.

Life

Ellmann was born in Highland Park, Michigan, the se

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James Joyce facts for kids

This page is about the writer. For other people with the same name, see James Joyce (disambiguation).

Quick facts for kids James Joyce
Joyce in Zürich, c. 1918
Born	(1882-02-02)2 February 1882 Rathgar, Dublin, Ireland
Died	13 January 1941(1941-01-13) (aged 58) Zürich, Switzerland
Occupation	Novelist, poet
Notable works	Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922), Finnegans Wake (1939)
Spouse	Nora Barnacle
Children	Giorgio, Lucia

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernistavant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, particularly stream of consciousness. Other well-known