James Joyce

1882 – 1941 · died at about 59^[1][2]

Literature

Fun Facts About James Joyce

• James Joyce set Ulysses on June 16, 1904, the date of his first outing with Nora Barnacle, his future wife. The date is now known as Bloomsday.^[1]
• Joyce was a talented tenor. He won third place in a 1904 Irish singing contest despite refusing to sight-read his third song.^[1]
• Joyce moved out of a Martello tower near Dublin after his housemates fired a pistol in the night at pans hanging directly over his bed.^[1]
• After a dog attacked him as a child, Joyce had a lifelong fear of dogs. He also feared thunderstorms, which an aunt had called a sign of God's wrath.^[1]
• Joyce had over a dozen eye operations. Fearing he could not finish Finnegans Wake, he asked the Irish author James Stephens to complete it.^[1]
• While teaching English in Trieste, Joyce had the novelist Italo Svevo as a student, and Svevo became one of the models for Leopold Bloom.^[1]
• James Joyce was alive at the same time as Richard Wagner — their lives overlapped for 1 year (1882–1883).^[1][2][3][4]
• James Joyce shares a birthday with Shakira: both were born on February 2.^[1][2][5][6]

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist movement and is regarded among the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, particularly stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914) and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include two books of poetry, a play, correspondence, and occasional journalism.^[1]

Contemporaries

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Henry Ford

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Edvard Munch

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H.G. Wells

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Mahatma Gandhi

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Max Planck

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Orville Wright

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Winston Churchill

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Carl Jung

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Albert Einstein

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Pablo Picasso

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Their World

Questions About James Joyce

When was James Joyce born?

James Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, and died on January 13, 1941.

How old was James Joyce at death?

James Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, and died on January 13, 1941, at age 58.

What was James Joyce known for?

James Joyce was known for: Ulysses, literary revolutionary. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist movement and is regarded among the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, particularly stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914) and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include two books of poetry, a play, correspondence, and occasional journalism.

Who was alive at the same time as James Joyce?

James Joyce's closest contemporary was Nikola Tesla. Their lives overlapped for 59 years.