# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-ellmann
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:19:29.986Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-ellmann"
name: "Richard Ellmann"
slug: "richard-ellmann"
description: "Richard David Ellmann, FBA, was an 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 (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 liberal humanist, and his academic work focuses on the major modernist writers of the 20th century."
tagline: "American writer and literary critic (1918–1987)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dd/Richard_Ellmann.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1918-03-15"
deathDate: "1987-05-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           13.18243733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump