James Joyce

James Joyce was born in 1882 in Rathgar, a suburb of Dublin, the eldest surviving of ten children. His father's money troubles forced the family to move many times. He was educated by the Jesuits at Clongowes Wood College and Belvedere College and studied modern languages at University College Dublin. In 1904 he met Nora Barnacle, and that year they left Ireland together; they lived in Pola, Trieste, Rome, Zurich and Paris, and Joyce supported them by teaching English. Except for a few short visits, he never lived in Ireland again, but all his fiction is set in Dublin. Dubliners (1914) is a collection of stories about ordinary city life. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) follows the boyhood and youth of Stephen Dedalus, who, like Joyce, breaks from family, church and country to become a writer. Ulysses (1922), which follows a single day in Dublin, and Finnegans Wake (1939) are famous for their experimental language. Joyce suffered from eye disease for much of his life. He died in Zurich in 1941.

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Faith: Baptized Catholic and educated by Jesuits; critics debate whether he fully rejected the Catholic faith. Source: Wikipedia