The second of five children born to the theologian Henry James Sr. and the heiress Mary Walsh, James grew up moving between his native New York, New England, London, Paris and Geneva.

THE. LEGEND OF THE MASTER (176 pp.) —Compiled by Simon Nowell-Smifh—Scribner ($3). Henry James.was the Winston Spencer Churchill of fiction. Portly and bald, and one of the greatest talkers in ...

The Princess Casamassima is largely forgotten; it isn’t one of the books that scholars use to prove James’s genius. Yet it remains startlingly modern, and offers a lesson for our politically ...

As a warm admirer of all that is worth while in Henry James's books, ... The Henry James cult recalls forcibly the fable about the Emperor's new robes. M. U. O. New York, Jan. 30, 1905.

On Writers and Writing: Essays by Henry James, edited by Michael Gorra (New York Review Books, 408 pp., $24.95). The criticism of Henry James (1843–1916) is replete with imperiousness. We can hear ...

Picking James up at age 27 in 1870, where Volume I (issued in 1953) left off, Edel carries the self-exiled author to the eve of the calamitous London production of James’s second play, Guy ...

Work by the National Trust to restore the writing desk of author Henry James will feature in a new series of the BBC's Hidden Treasures television programme. James lived at Lamb House in Rye, East ...