BIOGRAPHY AND PERSONALITY OF A FAMOUS ARIES: HENRY JAMES

Writer and critic, born in New York City, USA. Starting in the mid-1860s his essays and critical reviews began appearing in The North American Review, while his first novel, Watch and Ward, was published in Atlantic Monthly (1871).

His first novels, of the so-called international period, dealing as they do with interactions between Americans and Europeans, include The American (1877), The Europeans (1878), Daisy Miller (1879), and The Portrait of a Lady (1881). The works of his second period stressed psychological and social relationships and include Washington Square (1881), The Bostonians (1886), What Maisie Knew (1897), and The Sacred Fount (1901). He wrote his three masterworks in his final period, The Wings of the Dove (1902), The Ambassadors (1903), and The Golden Bowl (1904).

He had been writing almost to the end, and in his long career, in addition to his many novels and travel books, he wrote many classic short novels, The Turn of the Screw (1898), short stories (‘The Beast in the Jungle’, 1903) and critical essays (‘The Art of Fiction’, 1885), as well as two memoirs.