Henry James (1843-1916) was born in New York and died in London. In addition to many short stories, plays, and books of criticism, autobiography, and travel, he wrote some twenty novels, the first published being
Roderick Hudson (1875). They include
The Europeans,
Washington Square,
The Portrait of a Lady,
The Bostonians,
The Princess Casamassima,
The Tragic Muse, The Spoils of Poynton,
The Awkward Age,
The Wings of the Dove,
The Ambassadors, and
The Golden Bowl.
Brandon Taylor is the author of the acclaimed novel
Real Life, which has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and named a
New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, and
Filthy Animals. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Iowa, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in fiction.