<b>Henry James</b>,&nbsp;OM&nbsp;(15 April 1843 &ndash;&nbsp;28 February 1916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between&nbsp;literary realism&nbsp;and&nbsp;literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of&nbsp;Henry James, Sr.&nbsp;and the brother of renowned philosopher and psychologist&nbsp;William James&nbsp;and diarist&nbsp;Alice James.<br />He is best known for a number of novels dealing with the social and marital interplay between emigre Americans, English people, and continental Europeans &ndash; examples of such novels include&nbsp;<i>The Portrait of a Lady</i>,&nbsp;<i>The Ambassadors</i>, and&nbsp;<i>The Wings of the Dove</i>. His later works were increasingly experimental. In describing the internal states of mind and social dynamics of his characters, James often made use of a personal style in which ambiguous or contradictory motivations and impressions were overlaid or closely juxtaposed in the discussion of a single character&#39;s psyche. For their unique ambiguity, as well as for other aspects of their composition, his late works have been compared to&nbsp;impressionist painting.<br />In addition to voluminous works of fiction, James published articles and books of criticism,&nbsp;travel, biography, autobiography, and plays. Born in the United States, James largely relocated to Europe as a young man and eventually settled in England, becoming a&nbsp;British subject&nbsp;in 1915, one year before his death. James was nominated for the&nbsp;Nobel Prize in Literature&nbsp;in 1911, 1912, and 1916.[