Question: Ira Bruce Nadel, is an American-Canadian biographer, literary critic and James Joyce scholar, that wrote a biography of which American author?

Context articles: Samuel Johnson: A Life
William York Tindall
Bernard Benstock
James Joyce (biography)
Richard Ellmann
Leon Uris
James Joyce Award
William H. Quillian
Mathilde Schjøtt
Ira Nadel

Samuel Johnson: A Life is a prize-winning biography of 18th-century English lexicographer Samuel Johnson by British literary critic David Nokes.
 It was published on October 27, 2009, shortly before the author's death.
 Building on earlier work by scholars Robert DeMaria, Walter Jackson Bate, Lawrence Lipking and Peter Martin, many critics lauded "Samuel Johnson: A Life" as a significant step forward in Johnsonian biography and criticism.
 In the biography, Nokes challenges James Boswell's significance in Dr. Johnson's life, writing that "Johnson wished to keep...his acknowledged biographer at a distance" and even second-guessed his "annointment" of Boswell as his official biographer.
William York Tindall (1903–1981) was an American James Joyce scholar with a long and distinguished teaching career at Columbia University.
 Several of Tindall's classic works of criticism, including "A Reader's Guide to James Joyce" and "A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake" are still in print.
 He wrote a total of thirteen books on UK and Irish authors including Joyce, Dylan Thomas, William Butler Yeats, and Samuel Beckett.
Bernard Benstock (1930 – July 14, 1994) was a literary critic and a professor of English at the University of Miami.
 He was an authority on British mystery writers, and Irish writers Seán O'Casey and James Joyce.
 He was editor of the "James Joyce Literary Supplement" and a co-founder of the International James Joyce Foundation, of which he was president for eight years.
 He died on July 14, 1994 at the age of 64, in Egremont, Massachusetts.
James Joyce by Richard Ellmann was published in 1959 (a revised edition was released in 1982).
 Anthony Burgess was so impressed with the biographer's work that he claimed it to be "the greatest literary biography of the century".
 It provides an intimate and detailed account of the life of Irish modernist James Joyce, which informs an understanding of this author's complex works.
Richard David Ellmann (March 15, 1918 – May 13, 1987) was an American literary critic and biographer of the Irish writers James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats.
 He won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction for "James Joyce" (1959), which is one of the most acclaimed literary biographies of the 20th century.
 Its 1982 revised edition was similarly recognised with the award of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
 Ellmann was a liberal humanist, and his academic work generally focused on the major modernist writers of the twentieth century.
Leon Marcus Uris (August 3, 1924 – June 21, 2003) was an American author, known for his historical fiction.
 His two bestselling books were "Exodus" (published in 1958) and "Trinity" (published in 1976).
The James Joyce Award, also known as the Honorary Fellowship of the Society, is an award given by the Literary and Historical Society (L&H) of University College Dublin (UCD) for those who have achieved outstanding success in their given field; recipients have ranged from respected academics, lauded political figures, skilled actors and, like James Joyce himself, writers.
 It is the highest award that an Irish University society can give.
 It is named after one of the society's most distinguished alumni, James Joyce, the author of "Dubliners", "Ulysses", "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and "Finnegans Wake".
William H. Quillian is an American literary critic and James Joyce scholar.
 He is Professor Emeritus of English at Mount Holyoke College.
Mathilde Schjøtt (19 February 1844 – 13 January 1926) was a Norwegian writer, literary critic, biographer and feminist.
 She made her literary debut with the anonymous "Venindernes samtale om Kvindens Underkuelse" in 1871.
 She was a literary critic for the magazine "Nyt Tidsskrift", and her play "Rosen" was published anonymously in this periodical in 1882.
 She was a co-founder of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights in 1884, and a member its first board.
 She wrote a biography on Alexander L. Kielland in 1904.
Ira Bruce Nadel (born July 22, 1943) is an American-Canadian biographer, literary critic and James Joyce scholar, and a distinguished professor at the University of British Columbia.
 He has written books on the twentieth-century Modernists, especially Ezra Pound and Joyce, biographies of Leonard Cohen and Leon Uris, and on Jewish-American authors.
 He has won Canadian literary awards, and has edited and written the introduction to a number of scholarly books and period pieces.
 He is a critic of the Olympic torch relay as a legacy of the Nazis.