Henry James III[1] (May 18, 1879[2] – December 13, 1947[3]) was an American writer who won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1931.
[6] He practiced law in Boston from 1906 until 1912, when he became business manager of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research,[2] succeeding Jerome D. Greene, and was employed there until 1917.
[1] James wrote Richard Olney and His Public Service, which was published in 1923, a biography of Richard Olney, the U.S. Secretary of State, and Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University, 1869-1901 a biography of Charles W. Eliot published in 1930,[8] which won the 1931 Pulitzer Prize for History.
[6] Dorothea was the widow of Linzee Blagden, who died in 1936, and the granddaughter of Charles Anderson Dana, the Assistant Secretary of War under President Lincoln.
[1] James died at his residence, 133 East 64th Street in New York City, on December 13, 1947.