M. R. James, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

M. R. James

British writer

Date of Birth: 01-Aug-1862

Place of Birth: Dover, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 12-Jun-1936

Profession: writer, historian, children's writer, prosaist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Montague Rhodes James (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936) was an English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–18), and of Eton College (1918–36).
He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1913–15). Though James's work as a medievalist and scholar is still highly regarded, he is best remembered for his ghost stories, which some regard as among the best in the genre.
James redefined the ghost story for the new century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic clichés of his predecessors and using more realistic contemporary settings.
However, James's protagonists and plots tend to reflect his own antiquarian interests.
Accordingly, he is known as the originator of the "antiquarian ghost story".