Michael Joyce

Michael JoyceWriter and official at the Bank of England. Born in Saltburn, Yorkshire, Michael Joyce went to sea for four years with the merchant navy from 1919. On his return he worked as an official at the Bank of England (where he remained for many years) in London. In 1927, he married the daughter of the publisher of the Athenaeum. He contributed to literary periodicals from 1929, and a translation of his story "˜Perchance to Dream' appeared in the Frankfurter Zeitung in 1931 bylined to James Joyce. Incensed, JJ threatened the newspaper with litigation. Michael Joyce subsequently published popular histories such as Ordeal at Lucknow (1938) and biographies of Edward Gibbon (1953) and Samuel Johnson (1955) among others as well as the supernatural tale Peregrine Pieram (1936). His 1935 translation of Plato's Symposium was for many years reprinted in the Everyman's Library. John Simpson

迈克尔·乔伊斯，英格兰银行作家与官方职员，出生于约克郡的萨尔伯恩。自1919年起，他在商船队服役四年。归国后，他在伦敦的英格兰银行担任官方职务，并在此职位上工作多年。1927年，他与《雅典娜神庙》出版社的千金结婚。自1929年起，他为文学期刊投稿，其故事《或许会梦想》于1931年在《法兰克福报》发表，署名为詹姆斯·乔伊斯。对此事件表示愤怒的J.J.（詹姆斯·乔伊斯）威胁报纸提起诉讼。迈克尔·乔伊斯随后出版了诸如《勒克瑙的考验》（1938年）、《爱德华·吉本传》（1953年）和《塞缪尔·约翰逊传》（1955年）等流行历史著作以及超自然故事《佩雷格林·皮拉姆》（1936年）。他于1935年翻译的《柏拉图对话录》在《人人图书馆》中多次再版。约翰·辛普森