Books about James Joyce

Biographical sources


 Anderson, Chester G. James Joyce and His World. London: Thames, 1967.

 Beja, Morris. James Joyce: A Literary Life. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1992.

 Berone, Louis. James Joyce in Padua. New York: Random, 1977.

 Bradley, Bruce S. James Joyce's Schooldays. Dublin: Gill; New York: St. Martin's, 1982.

 Colum, Mary and Padraic Colum. Our Friend James Joyce. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958.

† Connolly, Thomas E. The Personal Library of James Joyce: A Descriptive Bibliography. 2nd ed. Buffalo: U of Buffalo, 1957. "The first edition of this bibliography was published in The University of Buffalo Studies in April 1955."--p. 3.

 Costello, Peter. James Joyce: The Years of Growth 1882-1915. New York: Pantheon, 1992.

 Curran Constantine. James Joyce Remembered. New York: Oxford UP, 1968.

 Davies, Stan Gébler. James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist. London: Davis, 1975.

 Edel, Leon. James Joyce: The Last Journey. New York: Gotham, 1947.

# Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. New York: Oxford UP, 1959.

# ---. James Joyce. New York: Oxford UP, 1966. Oxford Paperbacks series.

× ---. James Joyce. Revised ed. New York: Oxford UP, 1982. The standard Joyce biography; arguably the best literary biography ever. Comprehensive, authoritative, exhaustive, obsessive.

 Faerber, Thomas and Markus Luchsinger. Joyce in Zurich. Zurich: Unionsverlag, 1988.

× Fargnoli, A. Nicholas, and Michael P. Gillespie. James Joyce A to Z: The Essential Reference to the Life and Works. New York: Oxford UP,1995. Includes a solid synopsis of Finnegans Wake.

 Freund, Gisèle and V.P. Carleton. James Joyce in Paris: The Final Years. New York: Harcourt; London: Cassell, 1965.

 Gillet, Louis. Claybook for James Joyce. Trans. Georges Markow-Totevy. New York: Abelard, 1958.

 Gorman, Herbert S. James Joyce: His First Forty Years. London: Bles, 1926.

× ---. James Joyce. New York: Farrar, 1939.

# ---. James Joyce: A Definitive Biography. London: Lane, 1941.

# ---. James Joyce. New York: Rinehart, 1948.

× Joyce, Stanislaus. My Brother's Keeper: James Joyce's Early Years. Cambridge: Da Capo, 2003.

 MacDiarmid, Hugh. In Memoriam James Joyce. Glasgow: MacLellan, 1955.

 Magalaner, Marvin and Richard M. Kain. Joyce: The Man, the Work, the Reputation. New York: New York UP, 1965.

 Mikhail, E.H. James Joyce: Interviews and Recollections. London: Macmillan, 1990.

 Noel, Lucie. James Joyce and Paul L. Léon: The Story of a Friendship. New York: Gotham, 1950.

× Norris, David, and Carl Flint. Introducing Joyce. Ed. Richard Appignanesi. New York: Totem, 1997. Despite its comic book presentation, this is quite learned and well worth reading.

 O'Connor, Ulick, ed. The Joyce We Knew: Memories by Eugene Sheehy, Will G. Fallon, Padraic Colum, Arthur Power. Cork: Mercier, 1967.

 Potts, Willard, ed. Portratis of the Artist in Exile: Recollections of James Joyce by Europeans. Seattle: U of Washington P, 1979.

 ---, ed. Portratis of the Artist in Exile: Recollections of James Joyce by Europeans. New York: Harcourt, 1986.

 Pound, Ezra. Conversations with James Joyce. Ed. Forrest Read. London: Millington, 1974.

 Power, Arthur. Conversations with James Joyce. Ed. Clive Hart. New York: Barnes, 1974

 Staley, Thomas F. and Randolph Lewis, ed. Reflections on James Joyce: Stuart Gilbert's Paris Journal. Austin: U of Texas P, 1993.

 Sullivan, Kevin. Joyce Among the Jesuits. New York: Columbia UP, 1958.