Henry James

Henry James was born in New York in 1843 into a well-off family; his father, a theologian, had his children educated in Geneva, Paris and London. He gave up law at Harvard after a year, settled in England in 1876 and published about twenty novels in all. In 1895, his play was booed on its first night, a failure that turned him away from the theatre and back to narrative. From 1897, he dictated his books to a typist, which, according to some critics, shaped his late manner. Naturalised a British subject in 1915 and awarded the Order of Merit, he died in London in 1916.

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• NovelThe Turn of the ScrewHenry James · 1898LiteraturePublic domain