This document provides a biography of James Joyce in 3 paragraphs.
Joyce was born in 1882 in Dublin, Ireland into a large Catholic family struggling with poverty. He showed early signs of brilliance and rebellion, excelling at school run by Jesuits while also questioning the Catholic faith and Irish nationalism. As a young man in Dublin, he began writing and publishing, finding inspiration in the works of Ibsen and deciding to devote himself fully to art. He had his first sexual experience at age 16 and continued relationships with prostitutes, seeing it as part of understanding reality through aesthetic experience. By his late teens, Joyce was recognized as a genius and became the protégé of Ibsen after having an article