An Eye for Genius: James Brand Pinker and Henry James

A middle aged author declining in popularity. An up and coming literary agent with an eye for genius. A partnership that would forge a prodigious legacy in American literature.

Henry James was a middle-aged author who had established himself on a transatlantic scale when he employed James Brand Pinker as his literary agent in 1898. The changing preferences of a growing audience of readers along with James's self-defeating practice of shifting from publisher to publisher, rather than adherin...