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Richard Ellmann (1918–1987) was an American critic and biographer. He taught at Northwestern, Oxford and Emory, where he was named Robert W. Professor in 1980. He won the National Book Award for Nonfiction for James Joycein 1959; a revised edition was awarded the James Tate Black Memorial Prize in 1982.
The Big Word in ‘Ulysses’
Ulysses: A Critical and Synoptic Edition
by James Joyce, prepared by Hans Walter Gabler and Wolfhard Steppe and Claus Melchior
October 25, 1984 issue
The Ghost of Westerly Terrace
Parts of a World, Wallace Stevens Remembered: An Oral Biography
by Peter Brazeau
November 24, 1983 issue
Murder in the Monastery?
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver
July 21, 1983 issue
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