February 2

In literary history

• 1922Sylvia Beach published Ulysses on Joyce's fortieth birthday, having promised to do so after every English-language publisher refused. The book existed because a Paris bookseller loved it more than the people whose job it was to.

Writers born on February 2

• James Joyce (1882),
• Ayn Rand (1905)

The Daily Canon for February 2

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916).