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A Short Biography of James Joyce

Author Name:

James Joyce

Born As:

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce

Other Names:

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce

Born:

2 Feb 1882

Died:

13 Jan 1941




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Writer and poet                          
Selected Works:

Bust of James Joyce in St. Stephen's Green, Dublin.
Stephen Hero - written 1904–6: precursor to the Portrait, published 1944.
Chamber Music - 1907 poems.
Dubliners - 1914.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - 1916.
Exiles - 1918 play.
Ulysses - 1922.
Pomes Penyeach - 1927 poems.
Finnegans Wake - 1939.                          
Father  John Stanislaus Joyce - oldest of ten surviving children.                          
                          
James was attacked by a dog, which resulted in a lifelong canine phobia. He also suffered from a fear of thunderstorms, which his deeply religious aunt had described to him as being a sign of God's wrath.