Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker

by Zachary Leader

The story of the most acclaimed literary biography of the twentieth century--an ingeniously plotted, behind-the-scenes account of how the literary critic and scholar Richard Ellmann shaped James Joyce's reputation.

Richard Ellmann's James Joyce, published in 1959, was hailed by Anthony Burgess as "the greatest literary biography of the twentieth century." Frank Kermode thought the book would "fix Joyce's image for a generation,"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674248392
• ISBN13: 9780674248397
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 448 Pages