Kevin Birmingham received his PhD in English from Harvard, where he is a lecturer in History & Literature and an instructor in the university’s writing program. His research focuses on 20th-century fiction and culture, literary obscenity and the avant-garde. He was a bartender in a Dublin pub featured in Ulysses for one day before he was unceremoniously fired. THE MOST DANGEROUS BOOK is his first book. He is currently working on a second book forthcoming with Penguin Press.

Books by Kevin Birmingham

The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses

by Kevin Birmingham - History, Literature, Nonfiction

For more than a decade, the book that literary critics now consider the most important novel in the English language was illegal to own, sell, advertise or purchase in most of the English-speaking world. THE MOST DANGEROUS BOOK tells the remarkable story surrounding ULYSSES, from the first stirrings of James Joyce’s inspiration in 1904 to its landmark federal obscenity trial in 1933.