A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | About the Author
James Joyce is one of the most celebrated and influential English-language writers of the twentieth century, and his later works of fiction, including Ulysses (1922) and Finnegan's Wake (1939) are considered by many critics the most challenging (and, for many, rewarding) works of literature produced in any language. The title of his first novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, signals the author's tendency to draw heavily upon the circumstances of his own life, particularly his early life in Dublin. Indeed, despite a self-imposed exile that lasted most of...
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