James Joyce's Death
Born (Birthday) February 2, 1882
Death Date January 13, 1941
Age of Death 58 years
Cause of Death Perforated Ulcer
Profession Novelist
The novelist James Joyce died at the age of 58. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
Acclaimed Irish modernist author who became known for his incredible command of the English language and for his provocatively complex works of fiction. His famous pieces include Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Dubliners.
He was born in Dublin, Ireland to Mary Jane Murray and John Stanislaus Joyce, and he grew up with nine siblings including fellow writer Stanislaus Joyce. He met his future wife, Nora Barnacle, in 1904. The couple later had two children named Giorgio and Lucia.
Quotes
"Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
"There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
"When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.
"My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
"The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.