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1843–1916
A master of psychological fiction, this transatlantic novelist explored the tensions between America and Europe with unusual subtlety and depth. Best known for works like The Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw, and The Ambassadors, he helped shape the modern novel.

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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 in 1843, Henry James grew up in an intellectually lively family and spent much of his life moving between the United States and Europe. That international background became central to his fiction, which often follows characters navigating differences in culture, class, freedom, and expectation.
Over a long career, he wrote novels, short stories, criticism, travel writing, and autobiographical works. Readers often return to him for the finely observed inner lives of his characters, the moral ambiguity of his stories, and the way he turned social situations into deep psychological drama.
In his later years, James made England his permanent home and became a British citizen in 1915. He died in London in 1916, leaving behind a body of work that still feels remarkably sharp, intimate, and modern.