This study explores non-fiction of Henry James (1843-1916), including literary criticism, biographies, and autobiographies, while also interrogating the traditional formula of literary auto/biography. It attempts to piece together an image of James as a subject and object of biographical and autobiographical endeavors, including portraiture.

Miros?awa Buchholtz is Professor of English and Director of the English Department at Nicolaus Copernikus University (Poland), where she teaches American and Canadian literature, film adaptations of literature and biography, life writing and postcolonial studies. She has published books and articles on Henry James, most recently she co-edited the volume .

Contents: Henry James (1843–1916) – Biography – Autobiography – Life writing – Photography – Portraiture – History – Literature, culture, literary criticism – Nathaniel Hawthorne – William Wetmore Story – William James (1842–1910) – Mathew Brady – John Singer Sargent – Max Beerbohm – Hendrik Andersen – Leon Edel – United States – Great Britain – Italy – Nineteenth century – Twentieth century.