Henry James is one of the leading figures in nineteenth-century American literature. A novelist, playwright, and literary critic, he lived in London for twenty years, and many of h...ver másHenry James is one of the leading figures in nineteenth-century American literature. A novelist, playwright, and literary critic, he lived in London for twenty years, and many of his most famous novels — The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl among them — feature American protagonists in European locations. Though now greatly acclaimed, James’s work was never hugely popular in his lifetime.ver menos