James Joyce 1882-1941 was an Irish writer Author of Dubliners The Dead A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and also Ulysses considered the work that inaugurates the modern novel and one of the most important in Western literature Dubliners was written by James Joyce starting in 1904 and published in 1914 It consists of fifteen stories focusing on various aspects of city life and its inhabitants It is an excellent entry point into the fascinat...