Henry James was born in 1843 in New York City. The son of a
prominent theologian and philosopher, the young James's
intellectual upbringing enabled him to travel widely, studying in
New York, London, Paris, Bologna and Geneva. He briefly attended
Harvard Law School in 1862 before choosing to dedicate himself
instead to writing and literary criticism, with his first short
story, A Tragedy of Error, published at the age of twenty-one. Well
acquainted with Europe, he moved more permanently to England,
living in London and later Sussex. A prominent literary figure and
noted socialite, he admitted to having accepted 107 invitations in
the winter of 1878-9 alone. James became a British citizen in 1915,
received the Order of Merit in 1916, and died that year at the age
of seventy-two.
Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady and The Wings of the Dove
are also published in the Penguin English Library.
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