{"id":7380,"date":"2007-12-16T10:22:53","date_gmt":"2007-12-16T15:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7380"},"modified":"2010-11-01T07:27:19","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T11:27:19","slug":"wow-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7380","title":{"rendered":"Richard Ellmann, in the flesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tsutpen.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/when-legends-gather-327.html\">Legends, indeed<\/a>.  Richard Ellmann&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/James-Joyce-Oxford-Richard-Ellmann\/dp\/0195033817\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1197818751&#038;sr=8-2\">biography of James Joyce<\/a> is a towering achievement, a highwater-mark in the art of biography.  Why bother write another bio of Joyce after that??  Of course people still do &#8211; but they all need to contend with that book first.  It&#8217;s like Gerald Clarke&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Capote-Biography-Gerald-Clarke\/dp\/B000KCI8RK\/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1197818777&#038;sr=1-1\">biography of Capote<\/a>.  You can write more about him, you can try to write another biography &#8211; and good luck with that.  Good luck with coming out from under Clarke&#8217;s shadow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legends, indeed. Richard Ellmann&#8217;s biography of James Joyce is a towering achievement, a highwater-mark in the art of biography. Why bother write another bio of Joyce after that?? Of course people still do &#8211; but they all need to contend &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7380\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,9],"tags":[2067],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29472,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7380\/revisions\/29472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}