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Biography of O. HenryName: O. HenryBirth Date: September 11, 1862 Death Date: June 5, 1910 Place of Birth: Greensboro, North Carolina, United States Nationality: American Gender: Male Occupations: writer O. Henry The American short-story writer William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), who wrote under the pseudonym O. Henry, pioneered in picturing the lives of lower-class and middle-class New Yorkers.William Sydney Porter was born in Greensboro, N.C., on Sept. 11, 1862. He attended school for a short time, then clerked in an uncle's drugstore. At the age of 20 he went to Texas, working first on a ranch and later as a bank teller. In 1887 he married and began to write free-lance sketches. A few years later he founded a humorous weekly, the Rolling Stone. When this failed, he became a reporter and columnist on the Houston Post.Indicted in 1896 for embezzling bank funds (actually a result of technical mismanagement), Porter fled to a reporting job in New Orleans, then to Honduras. When news of his wife's serious illness reached him, he returned to Texas. After her death he was imprisoned in Columbus, Ohio. During his 3-…showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…Porter, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983, 1957. Long, E. Hudson (Eugene Hudson), O. Henry, the man and his world, New York, Russell & Russell 1969, 1949. Longo, Lucas, O. Henry, short story writer, Charlotteville, N.Y.: SamHar Press, 1976.O'Connor, Richard, O. Henry papers; containing some sketches of his life together with an alphabetical index to his complete work, Folcroft, Pa.: Folcroft Library Editions, 1973. O'Quinn, Trueman E., Time to write: how William Sidney Porter became O. Henry, Austin, Tex.: Eakin Press, 1986. Pike, Cathleen., O. Henry in North Carolina, Folcroft, Pa.: Folcroft Library Editions, 1978.Smith, C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso), 1864-1924, O. Henry, New York: Chelsea House: distributed by Scribner Book Companies, 1980. Stuart, David, O. Henry: a biography of William Sydney Porter, Chelsea, MI: Scarborough House, 1990. Toepperwein, Fritz Arnold, O. Henry almanac through the years 1862 to 1910, containing an account of some of the highlights in the life of William Sydney Porter, pseudonym O. Henry, Boerne, Tex., Highland Press, 1966?. |