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Henry James (1843-1916) was an American-British author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. He is considered among the greatest novelists in the English language, known for works including The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Turn of the Screw (1898), and his late major-phase trilogy: The Wings of the Dove (1902), The Ambassadors (1903), and The Golden Bowl (1904).
Henry James was born on the 15th of April 1843 at 21 Washington Place in Manhattan, New York City. He spent much of his adult life in Europe, relocating largely to Europe in his thirties, eventually settling in England, and becoming a British citizen in 1915.
The Turn of the Screw (1898) is Henry James's most adapted work, having been adapted twenty-eight times across film, television, and other media. His stories and novels have been adapted over 150 times in total between 1933 and 2018, with adaptations in English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Yugoslavian, and Swedish.
Yes, Henry James was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times: in 1911, 1912, and 1916. He died on the 28th of February 1916, the same year as his third nomination.
Guy Domville, a costume drama James wrote for actor-manager George Alexander, opened on the 5th of January 1895 at St. James's Theatre in London and was met with hissing from the gallery when James took his bow. The play ran only four weeks before being replaced by Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.
Henry James's siblings included his brother William James, who became a renowned philosopher and psychologist, and his sister Alice James, known for her diary. His younger brothers Garth Wilkinson James and Robertson James both served in the American Civil War, with Garth Wilkinson holding an officer's commission in the 54th Massachusetts regiment.