Colm Toibin's The Master drew from Leon Edel's essential work on this author Guy Domville, who wrote of revolutionary Paul Muniment in a novel called the apex of "moral realism" in Trilling's Liberal Imagination.
In a 2004 novel, this figure retires to Rye in despair after a real-life incident that saw him harshly booed at the premier of his play about a tutor who plays matchmaker while considering the priesthood. Colm Toibin's The Master drew from Leon Edel's essential work on this author Guy Domville, who wrote of revolutionary Paul Muniment in a novel called the apex of "moral realism" in Trilling's Liberal Imagination. He himself called characters like Mary Garland and Christina Light "perfect mirrors" in the much-studied (*) prefaces to the collected New York Edition of his works. He wrote of Rowland Mallet's discovery of the title sculptor in Roderick Hudson and of Hyacinth Robinson in The Princess Casamassima, but remains better known for characters like Basil Ransom, Christopher Newman, Lambert Strether, and Isabel Archer. For 10 points, identify this author of The Bostonians, The Ambassadors, and Portrait of a Lady, a brother of psychologist William.
In a 2004 novel, this figure retires to Rye in despair after a real-life incident that saw him harshly booed at the premier of his play about a tutor who plays matchmaker while considering the priesthood.
Henry James [I guess you can prompt on "Henry" as the first clue is about him as a character]