James joyce biography pdf

A (moderately) short biography:

James Joyce (full name James Augustine Aloysius Joyce) was born on the 2nd of February 1882 to John Stanislaus Joyce and Mary Jane Murray in a small suburb of Dublin, Ireland.

At the age of 17, Joyce enrolled in a local university, where he studied English and Italian.

At 21, he traveled to Paris to study medicine, but soon dropped out and spent months of his time, and his family’s money, reading and writing.

Joyce returned home shortly after, summoned by a telegraph sent by his father about his mothers imminent death.

He spend his time back home drinking heavily, writing book reviews to survive. He attempted twice to publish an essay/novel on the nature of Aestheticism, the second attempt the essay was reworked into a semi-autobiographical piece that would later become A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

In 1904, he met is would-be wife, Nora Barnac