Richard Ellmann

American writer and literary critic.

Born March 15th, 1918 in Highland Park. [ref]

Died May 13th, 1987 at 69 years old in Oxford (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). [ref]

Occupations
biographer, journalist, literary critic, literary scholar, writer
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I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. Gilda Radner