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Henry James was born on April 15, 1843 in New York City into a wealthy family. From an early age James had read the classics of English, American, French and German literature and Russian classics in translation. In his childhood, he traveled back and forth between Europe and America. He studied with tutors in Geneva, London, Paris, Bologna and Bonn. At the age of 19 he briefly attended Harvard Law School, but preferred reading literature to studying law. James published his first short story, "A Tragedy of Errors" two years later, and devoted himself to literature. James suffered a stroke on December 2, 1915. He died three months later in Rye on February 28, 1916.
In his Essay "The Art of Fiction" Henry James speaks through his character Walter Bessant about twelve points dealing with how fiction is an art. Three of these points which I found to be important were how fiction can be portrayed as a form of art but he explains also that fiction has no set form in which a book can be......

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