Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker History_Gift_Guide For more of Elaine's sourdough

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Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker History_Gift_Guide For more of Elaine's sourdoughA Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year The story of the most acclaimed literary biography of the twentieth centuryan ingeniously plotted, behind the scenes account of how the literary critic and scholar Richard Ellmann shaped James Joyces reputation. Richard Ellmanns 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 Joyces image