Tuesday, 11 November, 5.30pm
Wolfson College
WiO members are invited to this event organised by the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (OCLW).
Zachary Leader will discuss his new book, Ellmann’s Joyce, in conversation with Hermione Lee. The book offers a ‘biography of a biography’, tracing how Richard Ellmann came to Joyce, secured the cooperation of the family and estate, assembled papers and interviews, managed publishers, thwarted competitors, and balanced narrative with literary analysis. Zachary also examines the biographer himself—publicly celebrated and privately admirable, yet with a startling secret life—and sets out a broader case for Ellmann’s intellectual and artistic claims, and for the value of literary biography more generally.
Entry is free, but registration is recommended: https://oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/event/public-lecture-ellmanns-joyce-zachary-leader-in-conversation-with-hermione-lee
Pic: David Vernon