Henry James: The Young Master

Sheldon M. Novick portrays Henry James as a man of great emotional depth--powerful, confident, generous, and above all, courageous. This landmark life follows the author's exceptional biography of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, of which Edmund Morris said in The New York Times, "masterly . . . perfected to the point of art." of photos.

Sheldon M. Novick was born and grew up in New York City.  He has been a writer and lawyer through most of his adult life.  His first biography was Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes, published in 1989, and he is editing Holmess collected works.  He lives in Vermont, teaches constitutional law and history at Vermont Law School and is the proprietor of the South Strafford Cafe.