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 ...

Richard Ellmann’s “James Joyce” is widely regarded as the greatest literary biography of the 20th century, much as some see Joyce’s novel “Ulysses,” published in 1922, as its supreme work of fiction. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Francine Prose reviews Edna O’Brien’s latest novel, “Girl,” in this week’s issue. In 2000, Robert Sullivan wrote about “James Joyce,” O’Brien’s biography of the avant-garde writer, for the Book Review ...

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 ...

Number 7, St. Peter’s Road was perhaps the most important Dublin address for James Joyce. I was going down St. Peter’s Road—in Joyce’s time it was called St. Peter’s Terrace—with my first cousin ...