Author
Richard Ellmann
March 15, 1918 – May 13, 1987 · United States
Writer, Literary critic, Biographer, Journalist, Literary scholar, Scholar of English
Titles on list
1
Total weeks
10
Peak rank
#7
Biography
- Born
- March 15, 1918 · Highland Park
- Died
- May 13, 1987 · Oxford
- Nationality
- United States
- Gender
- Male
- Languages
- English
- Education
- Yale University, University of Dublin
Awards & Honours
- 1947John Addison Porter Prize
- 1949Guggenheim Fellowship
- 1960National Book Award
- 1960National Book Award for Nonfiction
- 1969George Polk Award
- 1978honorary doctor of the University of Gothenburg
- 1982James Tait Black Memorial Prize
- 1987Wilbur Cross Medal
- 1988National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography
- 1989Pulitzer Prize for Biography
- 1996George Polk Award
- Fellow of the British Academy
On the Bestseller Lists
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