109 years ago today, on February 28, 1916 (January 26, 1916 in the lunar calendar), James, the American "master of fiction", passed away. James, like Henry James, was born in New York on April 15, 1843. He grew up in a cultured family and, like many educated Americans at the time, admired ancient European civilization. He traveled between Europe and the United States since childhood and settled in London since 1875. In 1915, because the United States had not participated in the World War for a while, he became a British citizen. He died of illness in London on February 28, 1916. James studied under the guidance of a tutor at an early age. He studied at Harvard Law School from 1862 to 1864 and met the famous realist novelist Wi Dee Howells. In 1864, he began writing literary criticism and short stories. From 1875 to 1876, he met famous writers Turgenev, Maupassant, Flaubert, Daudet and Zola in Paris, as well as British writer Rowe Stevenson. He was unable to serve in the Civil War due to his disability. He has been diligent in writing for a long time and has written numerous books. He received an honorary degree from Harvard University in 1911 and an honorary doctorate of literature from Oxford University in 1912. In 1916, the British government awarded him the highest civilian medal. James's main works are novels, but he also wrote many literary reviews, travel notes, biographies, and plays. Beginning in 1905, he spent three years carefully revising his "Complete Works"(New York edition), which consisted of 26 volumes (1907-1917), accompanied by 18 important prologues, which elaborated on the themes and creative methods of the main works. and some important theoretical issues. Early multi-volume collections include the London edition of The Stories of Henry James in 14 volumes (1915-1919) and the London edition of The Complete Works in 35 Volumes (1921-1923). His novels often write about problems in interactions between Americans and Europeans; how adult sins affect and destroy pure, intelligent children; The contradiction between matter and spirit; the loneliness of artists, the lives of writers and artists, etc.: This shows the writer's strong interest in personal moral qualities. This is the humanistic tendency of well-educated intellectuals, rather than the familiar humanitarian sympathy for the poor. The author's important novels include "An American"(1876-1877), Portrait of a Lady (1881), Bostonian (1885-1886),"Princess Kasamassima"(1885-1886),"The Collection of Boingdon"(1896),"What Macy Knows"(1897),"The Immature Youth"(1899),"The Holy Spring"(1901) and three later works,"Pigeon Wings"(1902),"Special Envoy"(1903) and "Golden Bowl"(1904).