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Extractions: Put exact phrases in quotes Search within Results by media type: We searched for: we found: results by media type: journal articles: magazine articles: newspaper articles: encyclopedia articles: books on: o henry whirligigs - 98 results More book Results: The Caliph of Bagdad: Being Arabian Nights Flashes of the Life, Letters, and Work of O. Henry, William Sydney Porter Book by William Sydney Porter Robert H. Davis Arthur B. Maurice ; D. Appleton, 1931 Subjects: Henry, O.1862-1910 ...books." Though O Henry was never heard...Sixes and Sevens, Whirligigs , and naturally...life thereon that O Henry has immortalized...been revealed, O Henry forbade its publication...did it appear in Whirligigs . Porter himself... Whirligigs Book by O. Henry
O Henry - Biography And Works O. Henry (18621910) was a prolific American short-story writer, His father,Algernon Sidney Porter, was a physician. When William was three, http://www.online-literature.com/o_henry/
Extractions: William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) was born in Greenboro, North Carolina. His father, Algernon Sidney Porter, was a physician. When William was three, his mother died, and he was raised by his paternal grandmother and aunt. William was an avid reader, but at the age of fifteen he left school, and then worked in a drug store and on a Texas ranch. He moved to Houston, where he had a number of jobs, including that of bank clerk. After moving to Austin, Texas, in 1882, he married.
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Collected Memorabilia Of William Sidney Porter and correspondence of the American storywriter William Sidney Porter (18621910), William Sidney Porter was born 11 September 1862, in Greensboro, http://libweb.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/porter/
Extractions: Range of Collection Dates Size : 0.8 linear feet (2 archive boxes, 1 oversize folder) Photocopying, literary rights, and citation William Sidney Porter was born 11 September 1862, in Greensboro, North Carolina, the son of Algernon Sidney and Mary Jane Virginia (Swaim) Porter. (In 1898 Porter would change the spelling of his middle name to Sydney, and later still he would adopt the literary pseudonym "O. Henry.") His first job after leaving school was as a pharmacist's assistant in his hometown (1877-1882). In 1882 he went to Texas, and after work at various types of jobsincluding as a teller in an Austin bank (1891-1894)he started a short-lived humorous weekly, The Rolling Stone (1894-1895), and wrote a daily column for the Houston paper
Extractions: [AKA: William Sidney Porter] An Adjustment of Nature(The O. Henry Internet Series) After Twenty Years(The O. Henry Internet Series) Babes In The Jungle(Project Gutenberg) A Bird Of Bagdad(Project Gutenberg) ... TXT 21 Kb - SL: TXT - EN: TXT The Girl And The Graft(Project Gutenberg) The Girl And The Habit(Project Gutenberg) The Gold That Glittered(Project Gutenberg) ... The Heart of the West (Gutenberg text) Jimmy Hayes and Muriel(The O. Henry Internet Series) The Last of the Troubadours (Southwestern Classics On-line) alt url The Last Leaf(The O. Henry Internet Series) ... (UVa) . Illustrations. (35 KB) A Little Talk About Mobs(Project Gutenberg) The Love Philtre of Ikey(The O. Henry Internet Series) Makes the Whole World Kin(The O. Henry Internet Series) Memoirs Of A Yellow Dog(The O. Henry Internet Series) ... Options (Gutenberg text) Out of Nazareth(Project Gutenberg) Past One At Rodney'S(Project Gutenberg) The Poet And The Peasant(Project Gutenberg) The Princess and the Puma(May 1999) ... Roads of Destiny (Gutenberg text) The Robe Of Peace(Project Gutenberg) Round The Circle(Project Gutenberg) The Rubber Plant's Story(Project Gutenberg) The Skylight Room(The O. Henry Internet Series)
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O Henry (1862-1910) William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) was born in Greenboro, North Carolina. His father,Algernon Sidney Porter, was a physician. When William was three, http://elibrary.fultus.com/mergedProjects/Henry, O. (1862-1910)/o_henry(1862-191
Extractions: Prolific American short-story writer, a master of surprise endings, who wrote about the life of ordinary people in New York City. Typical for O. Henry's stories is a twist of plot which turns on an ironic or coincidental circumstance. Although some critics were not so enthusiastic about his work, the public loved it. William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) was born in Greenboro North Carolina . His father, Algernon Sidney Porter, was a physician. When William was three, his mother died, and he was raised by his parental grandmother and paternal aunt. William was an avid reader, but at the age of fifteen he left school, and then worked in a drug store and on a Texas ranch. He continued to Houston , where he had a number of jobs, including that of bank clerk. After moving to Austin Texas , in 1882, he married. In 1884 Porter started a humorous weekly The Rolling Stone. It was at this time that he began heavy drinking. When the weekly failed, he joined the Houston Post as a reporter and columnist. In 1894 cash was found to have gone missing from the bank and O. Henry fled to Honduras . He returned to Austin the next year because his wife was dying. In 1897 he was convicted of embezzling money, although there has been much debate over his actual guilt. In 1898 he entered a penitentiary at
Biography Of William Sydney Porter William Sydney Porter. 18621910. Short Story Writer O Quinn, Trueman E.Time to Write How William Sidney Porter Became O. Henry. http://www.ncwriters.org/services/lhof/inductees/wporter.htm
Extractions: The most popular short story writer of his era, William Sydney Porter was born on Polecat Creek in Guilford County, and raised and educated in Greensboro by an unmarried aunt who ran a private school. Young William Sydney Porter worked in an uncle's drug store until he moved at nineteen to Texas where he held a variety of jobs including paying and receiving teller at the First National Bank of Austin. To supplement his income, he wrote free-lance sketches, and was briefly editor and co-owner of a humorous weekly called The Rolling Stone . While he was working as a columnist for the Houston Daily Post , Porter was indicted for the embezzlement of bank funds during his time as a teller. His trial was delayed for two years first by his escape to New Orleans and Honduras, then by his wife's illness and death. Although it is not known for certain whether Porter was an embezzler or merely an incompetent bookkeeper, he was sentenced to five years in the Ohio Penitentiary. His jobs as the prison's night druggist and as secretary to the steward allowed him time to write, and he published his first short story from prison under a pen name. He used several pseudonyms, but upon his early release for good behavior, he chose to write as O. Henry. Porter moved to New York City in 1902, ostensibly to obtain material, although for the next few years his work continued to reflect his experiences in the southwest and Central America. All but 16 of the 115 stories he wrote in 1904 and 1905 dealt with New York, and on the publication of his second book
