James Joyce

James Joyce, the author of Dubliners, is known for his use of language, his unique writing style and his notorious cliff-hangers at the end of a story. Born in Dublin on February 2, 1882, Joyce based most of his books on Dublin during that time period. He was formally educated at the University College, Dublin. While studying there, Joyce published his first work, an essay called When We Dead Awaken. After graduating in 1902, he began to work as a teacher and journalist, due to difficult financial conditions. He spent a year in France, but returned back to Dublin when he found out his mother was dying. Not long after her death, Joyce began travelling again and later got married. He published Dubliners in 1914, along with A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in 1916, Exilesin in 1918 and Ulysses in 1922. When World War I broke out, his family was forced to leave Trieste and arrived in Zurich, where they lived for most of the war. They lived in poor, cramped conditions and but Joyce persisted to continue writing, even though he did not have his own office space. Since he did not have a space to call his own, Joyce let the outside world influence his books. The rest of Joyce's life was spent writing and publishing books that are still popular today. He died on January, 13 1941, at the age of 59, and was buried in a cemetery in Zurich.