Henry James was born in New York City on April 15, 1843. His father insisted on a European education for his children, so throughout the 1850s the family traveled to Geneva, London, Paris, and Bonn, where the children were privately educated by tutors. They returned to Americ ...

Rebecca Lenkiewicz was born in England in 1968. One of her first works, The Night Season, won the Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright. In 2008, Lenkiewicz's acclaimed piece Her Naked Skin became the first play written by a living female playwright to b ...