Hiroaki Sato translated "Basho's Narrow Road," "Right Under the Big Sky, I Don't Wear A Hat" and writes frequently on Japanese poetry.
The September/October 1996 issue of "Poets & Writers" cites Henry James as an influence on Mathews's work.
Cather believed Henry James to be the greatest of all novelists, and was strongly influenced by his work.
Bowen's novels were directly inspired by those of Henry James, whom she considered to be the great master of the novel form.
Bedford's interest, in her novels, in finding moral insight in the contrast between an innocent character and an attractively worldly one comes at least partly from her reading of Henry James.
The parallel love story in this novel, which takes place in the late 19th century, is very much like the story of the platonic romantic relationship between Henry James and the novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson.
Wharton and James were friends for the last 12 years of James's life, and Wharton was a passionate admirer of his works.
James's effect on Ford was profound, particularly in THE GOOD SOLDIER.
James appears as a character in Sontag's novel, and it is suggested that he based a character in one of his own novels on Sontag's protagonist in IN AMERICA.
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William James was Henry James's elder brother.
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"Take...'The Ambassadors' very easily and gently: read five pages a day--be even as deliberate as that--but don’t break the thread. The thread is really stretched quite scientifically tight. keep along with it with it step by step--and then the full charm will come out..." (James in a letter to the Duchess of Sutherland)
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel...is that it be interesting.
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Henry James was born into a wealthy Irish-American family who settled mainly in New York City's Greenwich Village and in Albany, New York, but lived and traveled extensively in Europe while Henry was growing up. Educated at a variety of schools in the U.S. and abroad, Henry spent a year at Harvard Law School, which he loathed, and used his time haunting the library and attending James Russell Lowell's lectures at Harvard College. Soon after, he began publishing short stories and reviews. When he more...
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04/15/1843 New York, New York, Middle Atlantic States, Northeastern States, United States,
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One of my all time favorite authors...