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Person Detail: Henry James Jr
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| Full Name: Henry James Jr | ||
| Biography: (1843-1916) Major American novelist, critic. Son of Henry James, Sr., and brother of William James. Henry James, Jr. was born at 21 Washington Place, Greenwich Village, New York, New York, and spent a part of his boyhood in Albany, New York. Privately educated, he entered Harvard Law School in 1862. He was encouraged to write critical articles and reviews for the Atlantic Monthly. After traveling in Europe, he settled permanently in London and wrote such novels as "The American" (1877), "The Portrait of a Lady" (1881), "The Turn of the Screw" (1898), and "The Golden Bowl"(1904). The United States Postal Service honored Henry James in 2016 with the issuance of its thirty-first stamp in the Literary Arts series. |
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| 1843 |
Albany County James lived part of his childhood in Albany, New York. |
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| 1843 |
New York County Henry James, Jr. was born at 21 Washington Place, Greenwich Village, New York, New York. |
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| 1916 |
(Unknown) County Henry James died in London, England in 1916. |
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| 1881 |
(Unknown) County The Portrait of a Lady (Pub: Macmillan and Co., London Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston ISBN: ) Novel. |
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| 1877 |
(Unknown) County The American (Pub: James R. Osgood and Company, Boston. ISBN: ) Novel. |
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| 1898 |
(Unknown) County The Turn Of The Screw (Pub: William Heinemann, London The Macmillan Company, New York City. ISBN: ) Novella. |
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| 1904 |
(Unknown) County The Golden Bowl (Pub: Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN: ) Novel. A screenplay based on this novel was written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and released in 2000. |
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| 1903 |
(Unknown) County The Ambassadors (Pub: Methuen & Co., London Harper & Brothers, New York City. ISBN: ) Novel. |
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| 1878 |
(Unknown) County Watch And Ward (Pub: Houghton, Osgood and Company, Boston. ISBN: ) Novel. |
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| 1875 |
(Unknown) County Roderick Hudson (Pub: James R. Osgood and Company, Boston. ISBN: ) Novel. |
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| 1880 |
(Unknown) County Washington Square (Pub: Harper & Brothers, New York City Macmillan and Co., London. ISBN: ) Novel. |
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| 1878 |
(Unknown) County Daisy Miller (Pub: Cornhill Magazine. ISBN: ) Novella. |
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| 1911 |
(Unknown) County The Outcry (Pub: Methuen & Co., London Charles Scribner's Sons, New York City. ISBN: ) Novel. |
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| 1916 |
(Unknown) County Henry James' ashes are interred in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
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| 1878 |
(Unknown) County The Europeans (Pub: Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company. ISBN: ) Novel. A screenplay based on this novel was written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and released in 1979. |
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| 1886 |
(Unknown) County The Bostonians (Pub: London: Macmillan and Company ISBN: ) Novel. A screenplay based on this novel was written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and released in 1984. |
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