Henry James¿(1843–1916)¿was an American author and literary critic. He wrote some two dozen novels and when he died he left¿behind more than ten thousand letters.Michael Anesko is a professor of English and American studies at Pennsylvania State University. He is a general editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James and the author, most recently, of Monopolizing the Master: Henry James and the Politics of Modern Literary Scholarship.Greg W. Zacharias is a professor of English and the founder and director of the Center for Henry James Studies at Creighton University. He is the editor of A Companion to Henry James and the coeditor of Tracing Henry James.Katie Sommer has been an associate editor of the Complete Letters of Henry James series since 2007 and has worked on the Henry James letters project since 2001.Susan M. Griffin is a professor of English at the University of Louisville and the editor of the Henry James Review. She is the editor of The Europeans, in the new Cambridge Edition. ¿