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Henry James Biography

Early Life

Henry James (1843–1916⁠), American author, was born in New York on the 15th of April 1843. His father was Henry James (1811–1882), a theological writer of great originality, from whom both he and his brother, Professor William James, derived their psychological subtlety and their idiomatic, picturesque English.

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Most of Henry’s boyhood was spent in Europe, where he studied under tutors in England, France and Switzerland.

Best Known Writings

In 1860 he returned to America, and began reading law at Harvard, only to find speedily that literature, not law, was what he most cared for.

His earliest short tale, “The Story of a Year,” appeared in 1865, in the Atlantic Monthly, and frequent stories and sketches followed. In 1869 he again went to Europe, where he subsequently made his home, for the most part living in London, or at Rye in Sussex, and became a proliferate writer.

Among his specially noteworthy works are the follow