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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No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for. Martin Luther King Jr.