Short answers, pulled from the story.
Henry James was born on the 15th of April 1843 at 21 Washington Place in Manhattan. His family took him on a grand tour of Europe before he was a year old, living in locations such as Windsor Great Park, London, Paris, Geneva, and Bonn.
Henry James suffered from a severe stutter that appeared only when he spoke English and vanished entirely when he switched to French. This linguistic duality shaped his entire worldview and forced him to observe the world from a distance.
Henry James declared Honoré de Balzac to be his greatest master and credited him with teaching him more about the craft of fiction than anyone else. Balzac introduced James to the works that would define his literary life.
Henry James made the pivotal decision to leave Paris and settle in London in the fall of 1875. His mother died in January 1882, his father passed away later that year, and his brother Garth Wilkinson James and his friend Ivan Turgenev both died in 1883.
Henry James died on the 28th of February 1916, in Chelsea, London. He became a British citizen in 1915 following the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.