James Stephens
(1882–1950)

James Stephens was born on February 2, 1882–the same birthday of James Joyce–another popular Irish writer. Stephens was a poet and storyteller who grew up in a poor neighborhood of Dublin, Ireland. As a young man, he worked for a lawyer, but in his free time he read all he could about Irish legends and fairy tales. He deliberately hid details of his childhood and background, so little is definitively known about his youth. His books include The Crock of Gold (1912), an imaginative novel, which is his most famous, and Songs from the Clay (1915), which is a volume of poems.

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