Henry James

Henry James was born in New York City in 1843 into a wealthy and intellectual family; his father was a religious writer and his elder brother, William James, became a famous psychologist and philosopher. The children were educated by tutors and in schools in Europe and America. Henry briefly studied law at Harvard but soon turned to writing stories and reviews. In 1875 he settled in Europe, first in Paris and then from 1876 in London, and later at Lamb House in Rye, Sussex. Many of his novels explore Americans meeting older European society, such as Daisy Miller (1878), about a free-spirited American girl in Europe, and The Portrait of a Lady (1881), about Isabel Archer's fateful choices. Washington Square is set in New York. The ghost story The Turn of the Screw (1898) leaves readers unsure whether the ghosts are real. His late novels, including The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl, are known for their long, subtle sentences. He became a British citizen in 1915 and died in London in 1916.

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