James Joyce

James Joyce was an Irish novelist, poet and literary critic whose fiction centres on Dublin, though he spent most of his adult life abroad. He is best known for Ulysses (1922), which follows the episodes of Homer's Odyssey through shifting literary styles, and for the short-story collection Dubliners (1914). His other books include A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). Joyce died in 1941.