Grace James

Born in Tokyo in 1882, Grace James was an English writer of children's literature and a folklorist with a strong interest in Japanese storytelling. She is especially remembered for Japanese Fairy Tales (1910), a collection that brought traditional Japanese stories to a wider English-speaking audience.

Her writing is often noted for its straightforward, readable style and for the care she took in adapting folk material for younger readers. That mix of literary work and cultural interpretation gave her a distinctive place among early writers who introduced children to stories from beyond Britain.

She died in Rome in 1965. Although she is not as widely known today as some of her contemporaries, her books remain part of the long history of children's literature inspired by world folklore.