Henry James

Author

Henry James was an American-British novelist and literary critic who is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language. Born in New York City in 1843, he spent much of his adult life in England and became a British citizen in 1915, the year before his death. A Small Boy and Others is his memoir of childhood — a richly... detailed, impressionistic account of growing up in a cultivated American family in the mid-nineteenth century. James's major novels include The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors, and The Turn of the Screw. His fiction is celebrated for its psychological complexity and its exploration of the clash between American innocence and European sophistication. James died in 1916. His audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers some of the most psychologically sophisticated fiction in the English language — masterpieces of consciousness and moral complexity. Read more Show less