Henry James was born on April 15th 1843 in New York. He was the
brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James. He spent
a great deal of his life in Europe, especially England. He is best
known for his cosmopolitan and often haunting portraits of European
and American life. His most famous fictional works include The
Portrait of a Lady (1881), What Maisie Knew (1897), The Turn of the
Screw (1898), The Wings of the Dove (1902), The Ambassadors (1903)
and The Golden Bowl (1904). He also wrote literary criticism, most
famously The Art of the Fiction (1884). He died on February 28th
1916.
Christopher Ricks is Professor of the Humanities at Boston
University, where he has taught since 1986, and Co-Director of the
Editorial Institute. He was formerly King Edward VII Professor of
English Literature at the University of Cambridge. He has written
books on Milton, Tennyson, Keats, Eliot, Beckett and Bob Dylan, and
he has edited the poems of Tennyson, the early uncollected poems of
Eliot, the selected poems of James Henry, and the poems of Samuel
Menashe, as well as two anthologies.
“Reading Henry James is like putting a new faculty to the test. This is the true morality.”—Anita Brookner
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