Author, Author

"A cunning, audacious portait of Henry James."—The Boston Globe

Henry James takes center stage in this brilliant story about literary ambition, creativity, and rivalry as revealed in the public career and private life of this most singular writer. Framed by a moving and dramatic account of his last illness, Author opens in the early 1880s, describing James’s close friendship with an illustrator named George du Maurier and his intimate but problematic relationship with fellow American novelis...