Henry James (1843-1916), the younger brother of the psychologist William James and one of the greatest of American writers, was born in New York but lived for most of his life in England. Among the best known of his many stories and novels are
The Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw, and
The Wings of the Dove. In addition to
The New York Stories of Henry James, New York Review Classics has published several long-unavailable James novels:
The Other House, The Outcry, and
The Ivory Tower.
Colm Tóibín is the author of five novels, including
The Story of the Night, The Blackwater Lightship, and
The Heather Blazing. The Master, a novel based on the life of Henry James, was published in 2004 and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. It also won the
Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year Award in 2005 and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France. Among his nonfiction works are
Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border, Homage to Barcelona, The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe, and, most recently,
Love in a Dark Time. In 2004, his first play,
Beauty in a Broken Place, was produced in Dublin where he lives.