Henry James

Henry James was an American-British author, the son of the theologian Henry James Sr. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. His fiction. He was the brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and the diarist Alice James. His novels deal with the social and marital interplay between expatriate Americans, the English and continental Europeans, as in The Portrait of a Lady of 1881, and later works such as The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl were increasingly experimental.