The publisher’s promotional language is so striking, and so in keeping with the author’s sensibility, that it must be quoted in full: “If you know nothing about James Joyce but would like to, this is ...

Zachary Leader’s book on Richard Ellmann’s landmark work on James Joyce asks whether a biographer can be considered an artist. In 1927—just five years after the publication of Ulysses and five years ...

Perhaps a monograph of James Joyce written a dozen years ago by Edna O'Brien doesn't count. And of course there was the magisterial biography of Joyce written by Richard Ellmann in 1959 and revised in ...

Reenacting the Fall of Adam and Eve with his siblings, a young James Joyce played the part of the devil, “wriggling around on the floor with a long tail made of a rolled-up towel.” In her posthumous ...

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (born James Augusta Joyce; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and ...

Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker, by Zachary Leader (Belknap Press, 464 pp., $35) Literary biography as a genre has sometimes suffered a lack of respect. Writers ...

A new book is a biography of a biography of the Irish author of ‘Ulysses.’ ...