Literary Lives James Joyce

This series of books offers accounts of the literary careers of widely read British and Irish authors. Volumes follow the outline of the writers' working lives tracing the professional, publishing and social contexts which shaped their writing. This book is about the Irish author James Joyce. James Joyce: A Literary Life is a short biography of Joyce for the student and general reader. It is the first biography to appear for a number of years (and the first to use all the voluminous materials by and about Joyce which have become widely available during the last two or three decades) of a novelist whom many regard as the most influential writer of the twentieth century, and certainly one of the major figures in world literature.