Stephen Hero
| First edition | |
| Author | James Joyce | 
|---|---|
| Cover artist | N. I. Cannon | 
| Language | English | 
| Genre | Autobiographical, Modernism | 
| Publisher | Jonathan Cape | 
| Publication date | 1944 | 
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) | 
| Followed by | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | 
Stephen Hero is a posthumously published autobiographical novel by Irish author James Joyce. It is the early version of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Its published form reflects only a portion of the manuscript: the first 518 pages have disappeared; 383 pages remain.