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  1. Alias O. Henry: A Biography of William Sidney Porter by Gerald Langford, 1983-06-08
  2. O. Henry: William Sidney Porter : Texas Cowboy Writer by Peggy Caravantes, 2005-09-30

1. William Sydney Porter (1862-1910)
William S. Porter O. Henry (18621910). Born William Sidney Porter, this masterof short stories is much better known under his pen name O. Henry. He was
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William S. Porter
"O. Henry" (1862-1910)
Born William Sidney Porter, this master of short stories is much better known under his pen name "O. Henry." He was born September 11, 1862 in North Carolina, where he spent his childhood. His only formal education was received at the school of his Aunt Lina, where he developed a lifelong love of books. In his uncle's pharmacy, he became a licensed pharmacist and was also known for his sketches and cartoons of the townspeople of Greensboro. At the age of twenty, Porter came to Texas primarily for health reasons, and worked on a sheep ranch and lived with the family of Richard M. Hall, whose family had close ties with the Porter family back in North Carolina. It was here that Porter gained a knowledge for ranch life that he later described in many of his short stories. In 1884, Porter moved to Austin. For the next three years, where he roomed in the home of the Joseph Harrell family and held several jobs. It was during this time that Porter first used his pen name, O. Henry, said to be derived from his frequent calling of "Oh, 'Henry'" the family cat. By 1887, Porter began working as a draftsman in the General Land Office, then headed by his old family friend, Richard Hall. In 1891 at the end of Hall's term at the Land Office, Porter resigned and became a teller with the First National Bank in Austin. After a few years, however, he left the bank and founded the

2. O. Henry (William Sydney Porter, 1862-1910)
Browse links to resources on O. Henry's life and literary career, including texts of a number of his short stories. William Sydney Porter (18621910). William Sidney Porter. Who is "O.
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3. O.Henry 1862-1910
O.Henry 18621910 American writer The life of O.Henry. O.Henry Literary Criticism;Biographies; O.Henry; O.Henry; William Sydney Porter; William Sidney Porter;
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William Sydney Porter. (aka William Sidney Porter). 18621910. William SydneyPorter was born in Greensboro, North Carolina on September 11, 1862.
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William Sydney Porter (a.k.a. William Sidney Porter) William Sydney Porter was born in Greensboro, North Carolina on September 11, 1862. His father was a doctor in the post-Civil War depression in the South. Growing up in Greensboro, Porter developed a love of books at the school run by his Aunt Lina. At the age of 15, he left the school to work in his uncle's pharmacy. While in Greensboro, he became known for his sketches and cartoons. At the age of 20, he moved to Texas and began working on a sheep ranch. Shortly thereafter, he moved to Houston, where he was a bank clerk, and then on to Austin, Texas.
While in Austin, he held many jobs: from land office draftsman to teller for the First National Bank to founder, in 1884, of a humorous but unsuccessful weekly, The Rolling Stone, to columnist for the Houston Daily Post. In 1894, he was accused of embezzling cash from the First National Bank where he had worked years before. O. Henry fled to Honduras, leaving his wife and daughter in Austin. However, he returned to Austin the next year because of his wife's poor health and pending death. In 1897, he was convicted of embezzling the bank funds and sentenced to five years in a penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio.

5. O. Henry (1862-1910) American Writer - Classic Literature
(18621910) American writer. Pseudonym of William Sydney Porter. O. Henry is known for his many short stories. short story writer William Sidney Porter, better known as O. Henry. William S. Porter "O. Henry" (1862-1910). "O.
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O. Henry (Henry Sydney Porter)
Guide picks (1862-1910) American writer. Pseudonym of William Sydney Porter. O. Henry is known for his many short stories.
An Exile in Paradise
"About a hundred years ago, a young North American named William Sydney Porter arrived in Honduras aboard a dilapidated freighter. He spent about a year in Honduras, dividing his time between Trujillo and Roatan. It was the time of the great "banana boom," and like so many other gringos who found themselves in Central America during that era, Porter had a shady past." Gift of the Magi, The
"I still remember the first time I heard "The Gift of the Magi" read. There's something about the story that comes off great when it's being told to you a certain timelessness, or transcendence." If his life were a short story, who'd ever believe it?

6. O. Henry [AKA: William Sidney Porter] At The Mad Cybrarian's Library
The Mad Cybrarian's Library. O. Henry AKA William Sidney Porter.18621910. An Adjustment of Nature(The O. Henry Internet Series
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7. ClassZone The Language Of Literature
O. Henry (William Sydney Porter). William Sidney Porter (18621910). What were O. Henry's last words?
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8. The Gift Of The Magi By O. Henry
Gift of the Magi by O. Henry. (18621910). O.Henry (William Sidney Porter), wasborn September 11, 1862 in North Carolina, where he spent his childhood.
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Story Home A.T.T. Classifieds Adopt-Pets.Com ... Auctions Gift of the Magi by O. Henry O.Henry (William Sidney Porter), was born September 11, 1862 in North Carolina, where he spent his childhood. His only formal education was received at the school of his Aunt Lina, where he developed a lifelong love of books. In his uncle's pharmacy, he became a licensed pharmacist and was also known for his sketches and cartoons of the townspeople of Greensboro. At the age of twenty, Porter came to Texas primarily for health reasons, and worked on a sheep ranch and lived with the family of Richard M. Hall, whose family had close ties with the Porter family back in North Carolina. It was here that Porter gained a knowledge for ranch life that he later described in many of his short stories. In 1884, Porter moved to Austin. For the next three years, where he roomed in the home of the Joseph Harrell family and held several jobs. It was during this time that Porter first used his pen name, O. Henry, said to be derived from his frequent calling of "Oh, 'Henry'" the family cat. By 1887, Porter began working as a draftsman in the General Land Office, then headed by his old family friend, Richard Hall. In 1891 at the end of Hall's term at the Land Office, Porter resigned and became a teller with the First National Bank in Austin. After a few years, however, he left the bank and founded the

9. Stories, Listed By Author
HENRY, O.; pseudonym of William Sidney Porter, (18621910) The Adventures ofShamrock Jolnes *Shamrock Jolnes, (ss) Sixes and Sevens, Garden City, NY
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HENRY, O. ; pseudonym of William Sidney Porter
  • The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes [*Shamrock Jolnes], (ss) Sixes and Sevens , Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1911
    • 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories
    • The Game Is Afoot , ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin's, 1994
  • After Twenty Years, (vi) , 1904
    • AHMM May '84
  • Calloway's Code, (ss) Whirligigs , Doubleday, 1910
    • The Mystery and the Detective , ed. Blanche Colton Williams, Appleton-Century, 1938
    • AHMM Jan '88
  • Caught, (ss)
    • High Adventure
  • The Clarion Call, (ss)
    • EQMM Feb '48
    • 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories
  • The Cop and the Anthem, (ss) The Four Million , Doubleday, 1906
    • Trial and Error: An Oxford Anthology of Legal Stories
  • The Diamond of Kali, (ss) , 1896
    • Cloak and Dagger
  • Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet [*Jeff Peters], (ss) , 1908
    • 100 Crooked Little Crime Stories
  • The Last Leaf, (ss) The Gentle Grafter , Doubleday, 1908
    • A Century of Thrillers: Second Series , ed. Anon., Daily Express, 1935
  • The Mystery of the Rue de Peychaud, (ss)
    • 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories
  • The Ransom of Red Chief, (ss)

10. Stories, Listed By Author
HENRY, O.; pseudonym of William Sidney Porter, (18621910) Calloway'sCode, (ss) Whirligigs, Doubleday, 1910 Quickie Thrillers, ed
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11. Walking Tour Of Historic Greensboro
Note the sign reading, In this store O. Henry (William Sidney Porter)18621910 was employed by uncle as drug clerk for five years.
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This is a text-only version of the tour. Print it out and explore Greensboro on foot! 301 N. ELM STREET
(Click here for picture) THE PARK BESIDE THE UNITED STATES TRUST CENTER, O. HENRY STATUES In this small park are three statues commemorating William Sydney Porter, born in Greensboro in 1862, who became a great short story writer, using the pen name O. Henry. There is a statue of O. Henry, one depicting his famous short stories "Gift of the Magi" and "The Ransom of Red Chief," and one showing a dog. These sculptures were made by Maria J. Kirby-Smith in 1985, provided by the Southern Life Insurance Company, and presented by the O. Henry Festival, Inc. 217 AND 223 N. ELM STREET
(Click here for picture) CORNER OF ELM STREET AND FRIENDLY AVENUE
(Click here for picture) Here is a historical marker commemorating the sit-in that occurred in the Woolworth Building at 132 S. Elm Street and described in the description of that building. 114 N. ELM STREET, PIEDMONT BUILDING

12. PROJECT GUTENBERG - Catalog By Title - G
Gift of the Magi, The AUTHOR Henry, O., 18621910 AKA William Sidney Porter, 1862-1910LANGUAGE English SUBJECT Fiction _ Short stories NOTES 1 PG ENTRY
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13. PROJECT GUTENBERG - Catalog By Title - V
Voice of the City, The AUTHOR Henry, O., 18621910 AKA William Sidney Porter, 1862-1910LANGUAGE English SUBJECT Fiction _ Short stories NOTES 2 PG ENTRY
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15. O. Henry [1862-1910] At Spirit Of America Bookstore
Ayn Rand. William Sidney later spelled Sydney Porter was born11 September 1862 in Greensboro, North Carolina. Under the pen
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About the only chance for the truth to be told is in fiction.
— O. Henry More than any other author, O. Henry represents the spirit of youth, specifically the cardinal element of youth: the expectation of finding something wonderful around all of life's corners.
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W illiam Sidney [later spelled Sydney] Porter was born 11 September 1862 in Greensboro, North Carolina. Under the pen name of 'O. Henry' he wrote nearly 300 short stories. He may not have invented the 'twist' ending, but his 'entertainments', with their irony and compassion and, some might say, old-fashioned sentiment, were and still are widely admired, and his reputation in American letters remains secure to this day, nearly a century later. H e left school at 15 to work, then at 19 moved to Texas, where he worked on a sheep ranch and breaking bronchosand other jobs. He moved to Austin, Texas in 1884, working at a land office and at a bank. In July of 1887, he eloped to marry beautiful Athol Estes; she bore him a son, who died within hours, then a daughter, Margaret in 1889. Irregularities discovered in his accounts at the bank in October 1894 caused him to flee, to Houston, where he worked at a newspaper. Imminent prosecution led him to flee again, leaving wife and child behind, to New Orleans and then to Honduras. H e returned to America in January 1897 upon learning that his wife was seriously ill, and soon after her death was convicted on a federal charge of embezzlement, although the government's case was weak. The three years and three months that he spent in prison in Ohio cast a shadow on his later life, and is cited as the reason for his pen name and for his insistence that his editors keep his identity secret.

16. Stories About Other Tramps
Christmas Stocking, by O. Henry pen name of William Sidney Porter (18621910);this story appeared in the collection, Roads of Destiny, 1909 Drift from Two
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Tramps Along the Falling Spring In The 1870's read by Jacob H. Stoner, April 27, 1944, The Kittochtinny Historical Society, October 1939 to March 1949, Volume XII, Craft Press, Inc., Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. ( A Must Read!
THE ROAD- Hoboes That Pass in the Night by Jack (John Griffrith) London (1876-1916) The Road, Hoboes That Pass in the Night (basically chapter six), Macmillan, New York, 1907, and "Hoboes That Pass in the Nights," The Cosmopolitan, December, pp.190-97, 1907.
Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking, by O. Henry [pen name of William Sidney Porter (1862-1910); this story appeared in the collection, Roads of Destiny, 1909]
Drift from Two Shores, My Friend, The Tramp, by Bret Harte,
Excerpts from " The Autobiography of a Tramp ," by John (Jack) Lewis Everson (1873-1945), Chapter 14 - Reflections on the wondrous world of Trampdom
The Ghost of a Tramp, Frank Leslie's, April 2, 1881.
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17. Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking
Dick's Christmas Stocking, by O. Henry pen name of William Sidney Porter (18621910);this story appeared in the collection, Roads of Destiny, 1909 It was
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The Page Begins Here Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking
Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking, by O. Henry [pen name of William Sidney Porter (1862-1910); this story appeared in the collection, Roads of Destiny, 1909]
It was with much caution that Whistling Dick slid back the door of the box-car, for Article 5716, City Ordinances, authorized (perhaps unconstitutionally) arrest on suspicion, and he was familiar of old with this ordinance. So, before climbing out, he surveyed the field with all the care of a good general.
Whistling Dick's red head popped suddenly back into the car. A sight too imposing and magnificent for his gaze had been added to the scene. A vast, incomparable policeman rounded a pile of rice sacks and stood within twenty yards of the car. The daily miracle of the dawn, now being performed above Algiers, received the flattering attention of this specimen of municipal official splendor. He gazed with unbiased dignity at the faintly glowing colors until, at last, he turned to them his broad back, as if convinced that legal interference was not needed, and the sunrise might proceed unchecked. So he turned his face to the rice bags, and, drawing a flat flask from an inside pocket, he placed it to his lips and regarded the firmament.
Whistling Dick, professional tramp, possessed a half-friendly acquaintance with this officer. They had met several times before on the levee at night, for the officer, himself a lover of music, had been attracted by the exquisite whistling of the shiftless vagabond. Still, he did not care, under the present circumstances, to renew the acquaintance. There is a difference between meeting a policeman upon a lonely wharf and whistling a few operatic airs with him, and being caught by him crawling out of a freight-car. So Dick waited, as even a New Orleans policeman must move on some timeperhaps it is a retributive law of natureand before long "Big Fritz" majestically disappeared between the trains of cars.

18. Inventory Of The Garber Letter Collection
Porter, RP (18521917) ALS, 2 p., 8 vo., March 18, ny, Norfolk, toMr. McChutoch. Porter, William Sidney (1862-1910) American Author.
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Palmer, Herbert Edward (1880-1961)
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  • ALS, 2 p., January 9, 1836, Stanhope St., to Lord John Russell.
  • ALS, 1 p., June 27, 1836, n.p., to Hay.
  • ALS, 2 p., August 16, 1855, n.p., to ?
  • ALS, 3 p., December 23, 1859, Broadlands, to J.B. Denton.
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19. O. Henry (1862-1910) American Writer - Classic Literature
house museum, home of the famous short story writer William Sidney Porter, betterknown as O. Henry. William S. Porter O. Henry (18621910) O. Henry wrote
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O. Henry (Henry Sydney Porter)
Guide picks (1862-1910) American writer. Pseudonym of William Sydney Porter. O. Henry is known for his many short stories.
An Exile in Paradise
"About a hundred years ago, a young North American named William Sydney Porter arrived in Honduras aboard a dilapidated freighter. He spent about a year in Honduras, dividing his time between Trujillo and Roatan. It was the time of the great "banana boom," and like so many other gringos who found themselves in Central America during that era, Porter had a shady past." Gift of the Magi, The
"I still remember the first time I heard "The Gift of the Magi" read. There's something about the story that comes off great when it's being told to you a certain timelessness, or transcendence." If his life were a short story, who'd ever believe it?

20. About Life
is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty,love, and war. O. Henry (William Sidney Porter, 18621910), US writer.
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"Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred."
Anatole France (1844-1924), French writer and poet.
"Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st Live well; how long or short permit to Heaven."
John Milton (1608-1674), British poet, Paradise Lost (1667).
"There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war."
O. Henry (William Sidney Porter, 1862-1910), US writer.
"Shakespeare once said: "Life is pretty stupid, with lots of hubbub to keep you busy, but really not amounting to much"É
I'm paraphrasing of course." Harris K. Telemacher (Steve Martin), L. A. Story (1991).
"My life is like a stroll upon the beach, As near the ocean's edge as I can go."
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), US writer The Fisher's Boy.
"One life, a little gleam of time between two Eternities." Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Scottish writer. 1. More...

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