Leon Edel, Biographer of Henry James, Dies at 89 From: The Washington Post | Date: September 9, 1997| Author: J.Y. Smith | Copyright 1997 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Leon Edel, 89, the author of a celebrated five-volume biography of Henry James that won both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award and remains the classic work on the life of the expatriate American novelist and critic, died Sept. 5 at a hospital in Honolulu after a heart attack.

Mr. Edel, who was stricken at his home in Honolulu, was a former freelance journalist and translator, a decorated Army veteran of World War II, a student of psychology and psychoanalysis, an English...

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