Joyce, James (Augustine Aloysius)
1882-1941
Irish novelist, short-story writer, and poet.
Most notable works: Ulysses (1922), Finnegan's Wake (1928), Dubliners (1914), and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man(1916).
Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake were viewed by many writers and critics as modern masterpieces (most notably T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Yeats, Hemingway, and Arnold Bennett), though others (including Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, and the critic Walter Allen) showed far less enthusiasm. Joyce's influence on the development of modernism (especially stream of consciousness) is undisputed, however, and his work has attracted an immense amount of critical exegesis.
Referenced from The Wordsworth Companion to Literature in English.