James Joyce

Irish, 1882–1941

James Joyce (1882–1941) was an Irish novelist and poet widely regarded as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. His novel Ulysses, set during a single day in Dublin, revolutionized the modern novel with its stream-of-consciousness technique, linguistic inventiveness, and encyclopedic scope. Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man are equally celebrated for their precise, evocative prose.