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1843–1916
Known for subtle, psychologically rich fiction, this master novelist explored the tensions between Americans and Europeans with unusual depth and precision. His work helped bridge literary realism and early modernism, and it still feels strikingly modern.

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by William Dean Howells, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, John Kendrick Bangs, Alice Brown, Mary Stewart Cutting, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Henry James, Elizabeth Garver Jordan, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Henry Van Dyke, Mary Heaton Vorse, Edith Wyatt

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Born in New York City on April 15, 1843, Henry James grew up in an intellectually lively family that included his brother William James, the philosopher and psychologist. He spent much of his life moving between the United States and Europe, and that transatlantic experience became one of the defining subjects of his fiction.
James wrote major novels including The Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw, and The Ambassadors, along with a large body of short fiction, criticism, and travel writing. He is widely admired for his careful prose, sharp attention to consciousness, and gift for showing the hidden motives and social pressures shaping his characters.
Late in life he became a British citizen in 1915. He died in London on February 28, 1916, leaving behind a body of work that has had lasting influence on both American and British literature.