Publication details of Ulysses:

His most famous novel, first published in Paris on 2nd February, 1922.

Other literary works include:

Dubliners (1914)
Chamber Music (1907)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, published serially in the Egoist, 1914-15
Finnegans Wake (1939)

Born:

2nd February, 1882, at Rathgar (a suburb of Dublin), Ireland.

Early years:

Joyce was the eldest of ten children. In spite of poverty, the family maintained solid, middle-class values.

Schooling:

At the age of six, Joyce was sent to Clongowes Wood College, a Jesuit boarding school that has been described as "the Eton of Ireland". Between 1893 and 1897 he attended Belvedere College in Dublin. In 1898 he entered the University College, Dublin, where he found his early inspiration in the work of Henrik Ibsen, St. Thomas Aquinas and W.B. Yeats.

Career:

Following his graduation in 1902, Joyce went to Paris, where he worked as a journalist, teacher, and in other occupations, in difficult financial conditions. He also taught English at the Berlitz school in Trieste and spoke of setting up an agency to sell Irish tweed. He refused a post to teach Italian in Dublin and continued to live abroad. He worked as a bank clerk in Rome for a short time. In 1909 he opened a cinema in Dublin, but this affair failed and he soon returned to Trieste.

Final years:

Joyce was most productive between 1923 and 1929, though many abandoned him because of his seemingly nonsensical style. In 1931 Joyce and Nora Barnacle, his partner, finally got married after 27 years together. His daughter, Lucia's madness and his failing eyesight forced him into a long period of near inactivity. But Joyce eventually completed and published Finnegans Wake in 1939, after which Joyce and Nora moved from Paris to "neutral" Switzerland to avoid Nazi aggression.

Died:

He died in Zurich on 13th of January, 1941, of an ulcer.