Richard Ellmann (March 15, 1918 - 1987) was a prominent literary critic and biographer of Irish writers such as James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats. Ellmann's James Joyce (1959) is considered as one of the greatest literary biographies of the 20th century.
Major works
- Yeats: The Man And The Masks (1948; revised edition in 1979)
- James Joyce (1959; revised edition in 1982)
- Oscar Wilde (1988)
