Lecture

16 May 2025 at 6.30pm

The James Joyce Centre hosted a special lecture by Zachary Leader on Friday, 16 May 2025 at 6.30pm. Leader discusses his latest book Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and its Maker (2025, Harvard UP), a biography of leading Joyce biographer Richard Ellmann. It is the first book about Richard Ellmann and his James Joyce (1959), called the greatest literary biography of the twentieth century.

Leader discussed his book and his findings with Joycean scholar Terence Killeen.

Zachary Leader is an Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Roehampton and the biographer of Kingsley Amis and Saul Bellow. He is also General Editor of the Oxford History of Life-Writing and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Terence Killeen is Research Scholar at the James Joyce Centre. He has published in theJames Joyce Quarterly, theJames Joyce Literary Supplementand theJoyce Studies Annual. A former journalist with theIrish Times, he continues to write on Joyce-related matters for the newspaper. He is a former trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation.

The James Joyce Centre is supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.