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William Sidney Porter was born on September 11, 1862, in Greensboro, North Carolina, during the American Civil War. He changed the spelling of his middle name to Sydney in 1898. His parents were Algernon Sidney Porter (1825–88), a physician, and Mary Jane Virginia Swaim Porter (1833–65). William's parents had married on April 20, 1858.
"The Gift of the Magi" is a short story by O. Henry (pen name of William Sydney Porter) first published in 1905. The story tells of a young husband and wife and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money.
"The Duplicity of Hargraves" is a short story by the American writer William Sydney Porter, better known by his pen name O. Henry. [1] The story was featured in The Junior Munsey, February 1902, and republished in the volume Sixes and Sevens (1911).
William H. Porter (1861–1926), prominent banker in New York City; William Porter (athlete) (1926–2000), American track and field hurdler William Sydney Porter (1862–1910), American writer who used the pen name O. Henry
The William Sydney Porter House or O. Henry House is a historic structure in Downtown Austin, Texas. William Sydney Porter, better known as the author O. Henry, lived there between 1893 and 1895. The Porter house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 18, 1973. The house is known today as the O. Henry Museum.
I'm alive.What an accomplishment. That’s the first lyric [on Black Mona Lisa]: “I'm alive.What an accomplishment for my kind.” Our government means to kill Black men, Black people.
In 2000, Steven Saylor published the novel A Twist at the End, which closely reconstructed the murders and the ensuing trials, with young William Sydney Porter playing a fictional role. The novel was published in the United Kingdom (as Honour the Dead ) and has been translated into Portuguese and Hungarian.
Aug. 12—Katherine Anne Porter was one of the most noted of Texas novelists. Her career spanned decades, and though her output was limited, it had a profound impact on many aspiring writers from ...