Richard Ellmann was born on March 15, 1918 in Highland Park, Michigan, USA as Richard David Ellmann. He was a writer, known for Oscar Wilde (1997), Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence (1984) and Oscar Wilde, Spendthrift of Genius (1986). He was married to Mary Donohue. He died on May 13, 1987 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England.