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The O. Henry House has been the site of the O. Henry Pun-Off, an annual spoken word competition inspired by Porter's love of language, since 1978. (Dr. Samuel E. Gideon, a historical architect and professor at the University of Texas at Austin, was a strong advocate for the saving of the O. Henry House in Austin.)
The Cisco Kid is a fictional character found in numerous film, radio, television and comic book series based on the fictional Western character created by O. Henry in his 1907 short story "The Caballero's Way", published in Everybody's Magazine, vol. 17 (July 1907), as well as in the collection Heart of the West (1907).
The 1917 two-reel silent film The Last Leaf, one of a series of O. Henry works produced by Broadway Star Features. [5] In 1952 it was one of five stories adapted for O. Henry's Full House. In this adaptation, the protagonist's nickname is Jo, and Susan (Sue) is portrayed as her sister. [6]
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.
"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.
O.J. Simpson left behind a complicated legacy when he died. The former football star — born Orenthal James Simpson and nicknamed “The Juice” — rose to fame as a record-breaking running ...
Just a couple of days before Liam Payne’s tragic death, his ex-fiancée Maya Henry revealed unsettling details about his manipulative behavior and how he would constantly talk about death.. The ...
Syndicated series The O. Henry Playhouse (1956-57) adapted the story for one of their half-hour episodes. The adaptation has been released on a DVD collection of the show's episodes. [2] The story was included in a 1987 audiotape collection O. Henry Favorites by the Listening Library of Old Greenwich, Connecticut.