Henry James

Henry James (1843–1916) was an American-British writer. Born into a wealthy and intellectual family in New York, he received a cosmopolitan education in America and Europe. From the 1860s onward, he published criticism and fiction; his best-known works include *Daisy Miller* (1878), *Washington Square* (1880), *The Portrait of a Lady* (1881), and *The Turn of the Screw* (1898). His novels and short stories frequently explored the contrast between American and European society, and he is regarded as a master of psychological fiction. James became a British citizen in 1915. He died in London in 1916 and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times.