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 ...

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 ...

Gabrielle Carey’s brief biography collects the essential details of Joyce’s life and delivers them in a delightful, underplayed way.

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