Henry James (1843-1916) spent his early life in America but often
traveled with his celebrated family to Europe. After briefly
attending Harvard, he began to contribute both criticism and tales
to magazines. Later, he visited Europe and began Roderick Hudson.
Late in 1875, he settled in Paris, where he met Turgenev, Flaubert,
and Zola and wrote The American. In 1876, he moved to London, where
two years later he achieved international fame with Daisy Miller.
His other famous works include The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The
Princess Casamassma (1886), The Wings of the Dove (1902), and The
Golden Bowl (1904). In 1915, a few months before his death, he
became a British subject.
Fred Kaplan is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at
Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of
New York. He is the author of The Singular Mark Twain, A Biography;
Gore Vidal, A Biography; Henry James, The Imagination of Genius and
Charles Dickens, A Biography. His Thomas Carlyle was a finalist for
the National Book Critics' Circle Award and was a jury-nominated
finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Other works include Sacred Tears-
Sentimentality in Victorian Literature, Dickens and Mesmerism- the
Hidden Spring of Fiction, and Miracles of Rare Device- The Poet's
Sense of Self in Nineteenth-Century Poetry.
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