Henry James Biography  Biography (History of the World: The 19th
Century)  ph_0111201229-James.jpg Henry James. Published by
Salem Press, Inc.  Article abstract: James is one of the most
preeminent and influential writers of the modern novel in
America. Both his life and his work are closely related to the
United States’ emergence in the twentieth century as a major
world power.  Early Life  Henry James was born April 15, 1843,
at 21 Washington Place in New York City, son of a wealthy and
distinguished American family tracing its roots to an immigrant
ancestor, William James. This founder of the James family in
America had come from Northern Ireland two generations before,
just after the American Revolution, and had made a fortune in
real estate in Albany, New York, then a small city greatly
influenced by the Dutch. Henry James’s father, Henry James, Sr.,
married Mary Robertson Walsh, originally from Northern Ireland,
and together they produced five children: William, Henry, Garth
(known as “Wilky”), Robertso