Discover the Best Books Written by Henry James

Henry James was born on 15 April 1843 to a wealthy family. He was born in New York, New York, USA. His parents were Henry James Sr. and Mary Robertson Walsh; He had one brother William James, and one sister Alice James. When Henry James was a young boy, he enjoyed reading the classics of English, American, German, French, and Russian literature. Also, when he was a kid, he and his family traveled back and forth to England and the United States of America. Henry James was educated in New York City, London, Paris, and Geneva.

He tried to strive for a higher education then he decided it was not for him, and writing was his calling in life. (When Henry James was at the age of 19, he briefly attended Harvard Law School but preferred reading literature to studying law). When Henry James hit the age of 21, he decided to write his first novel, A Tragedy of Errors. From that point on, he started to write. He went on to write 23 more novels in his lifetime (this is a short list of the books he wrote the Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, The Portrait of a Lady, The American, Washington Square, The Bostonians, and The Wings of the Dove). 

Henry James also was extraordinarily productive on top of all of the novels he wrote; he published articles, biography, autobiography, and criticism and wrote plays (one of them being Guy Domville), some of which were performed during his lifetime with moderate success. Henry James also wrote a whole lot of short stories for either the local news or just for fun. He often wrote for the New York tribune. Henry James was a keystone writer of his time (He was one of the foremost literary figures of his time, leaving us an enormous body of novels, 'tales' (short stories), literary and art criticism, autobiography, and travel writing). 

Throughout his life, he was in love with his cousin, Mary Temple, but later in life, while he was in London, he became homosexual, the young man he started to write was at the age of 27, and Henry James was at the age of 56. He also wrote another guy named Howard Sturgis. They started to write back and forth, and they started to have more emotion in the letters. He also started to write a woman named Lucy Clifford, But Henry James never got married in his lifetime. Henry James' brother William James died when Henry James was at the age of 67; Henry James had a stroke on Dec 2nd of, 1915. His health started to decline from then. He died in London on Feb. 28th, 1916. When he died, he was not only a citizen of the United States of America but also a British subject. He was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium, and his ashes are interred at Cambridge, Massachusetts.