Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiec

The story of the most acclaimed literary biography of the twentieth century—an ingeniously plotted, behind-the-scenes account of how the literary critic and scholar Richard Ellmann shaped James Joyce's reputation.

'Morgan the Pirate' is a name long associated with all the trappings of pirate living - skull and crossbones, pieces of eight, speeding ships, almost in fact 'with a yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum'. As legend has it, his was a life of high adventure, dastardly battles and more than a few gold coins thrown in, collected by underhand means of course.

Alain L. Locke (1886-1954), in his famous 1925 anthology The New Negro , declared that “the pulse of the Negro world has begun to beat in Harlem.”