Quote of the day
Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.
Richard Ellman

Born: March 15, 1918
Died: May 13, 1987 (aged 69)
Bio: Richard David Ellmann was a prominent American literary critic and biographer of the Irish writers James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats. He won the U.S.
Known for:
- James Joyce (1959)
- Oscar Wilde: Biographie (1987)
- Yeats: The Man And The Masks (1948)
- Four Dubliners (1987)
- The Norton anthology of modern poetry (1973)