Author

Books by James Joyce

James Joyce (1882–1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet, widely considered one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Born in Dublin, he left Ireland in 1904 and spent most of his adult life in Trieste, Zurich, and Paris. His major works include Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. He spent seventeen years on Finnegans Wake, a book of such radical difficulty that his eyesight — already severely compromised — nearly failed him entirely. He died in Zurich in 1941 at fifty-eight.