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Henry James
1843 – 1916
American and British writer (1843–1916)
- United States · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- American
- Realism
- literary-realism
- Literary Theory
About
Henry James was an American-British author. 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. He was the son of theologian Henry James Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Portrait by John Singer Sargent (died 1925) (Public domain) via Wikimedia Commons.
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