While traveling through and living in Europe, he wrote his first novels, often choosing characters who, like him, lived lives caught between Europe and the United States. After a brief time spent at Harvard Law School in 1862, James-who had always been a voracious reader-turned to literature, which later became his profession. The family spent many years in Europe’s major cities: the first twenty years of James’s life were spent travelling between Europe and the United States, and in these cities he was tutored by some of the countries’ best known intellectuals. His father placed high value in his children’s education (James’s brother, William James, became a pioneer of psychology and philosophy). Henry James was born into a wealthy family, the second of five children born to a prominent theologian, Henry James Sr.
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