Leon Edel, biographer and critic, was the Henry James Professor of English and American Letters at New York University. He wrote and edited more than thirty volumes, the most important being The Life of Henry James, The Modern Psychological Novel, and Literary Biography.

Leon Edel, biographer and critic, was the Henry James Professor of English and American Letters at New York University. He wrote and edited more than thirty volumes, the most important being The Life of Henry James, The Modern Psychological Novel, and Literary Biography.