21. The Gift Of The Magi - O. Henry (1862-1910) The Gift of the Magi, by O. Henry is another Christmas classic about sacrificeand love. Read more about this work. http://classiclit.about.com/od/thegiftofthemag1/

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22. Confessions Of A Humorist - O. Henry (1862-1910) Read Confessions of a Humorist, by O. Henry. Days Day Holiday Literature April Fool s Day Confessions of a Humorist - O. Henry (1862-1910) http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/ohenry/bl-ohenry-confessions.htm

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O. Henry 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

25. Henry_O_ny1 O. Henry (1862-1910). The Chelsea Hotel, one of the many hotels in which O.Henry lived in New York City. New York City. By Ally Feldman and Veronika http://www.ncteamericancollection.org/litmap/henry_o_ny1.htm

O. Henry - (1862-1910) The Chelsea Hotel, one of the many hotels in which O. Henry lived in New York City. New York City By Ally Feldman and Veronika Fernandez Village Community School, New York City Read other essays on O. Henry by New York student Daniel Golden or North Carolina students Chris L. and Justin L. , and Bobby Helbert I. Biography O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) was born in Greensboro, North Carolina. After his mother died of pneumonia he, his father and brothers moved to live with his grandmother who raised the children and undertook their education. For extra money O. Henry worked as a pharmacist at his uncle's drugstore. In 1881 O. Henry got his pharmacist's license. O. Henry moved to Texas shortly after in fear of getting pneumonia from which his mother died. He felt that the dry climate would be healthier. Once in Texas O.Henry got married and became a bank teller. In 1884 he bought a comic magazine and changed it into a short story magazine called The Rolling Stone . The magazine failed after one year. Soon after, O. Henry was charged with embezzlement at the bank where he was working, due to shortages in his accounts. He fled to Honduras but returned a little while after because his wife was very ill. He came home to be with her while she died. Later he received five years in the federal penitentiary in Ohio. O. Henry worked night shifts at the jail pharmacy and started to send in short stories to magazines.

26. Henry_O_nc1 O. Henry (1862-1910). Greensboro. By Chris L. and Justin L. Read other essayson O. Henry written by New York students Daniel Golden and Ally Feldman and http://www.ncteamericancollection.org/litmap/henry_o_nc1.htm

O. Henry - (1862-1910) Greensboro By Chris L. and Justin L. Read other essays on O. Henry written by New York students Daniel Golden and Ally Feldman and Veronika Fernandez , or North Carolina student Bobby Helbert I. Biography William Sydney Porter (known as O.Henry) was born on September 11, 1862, in Polecat Creek, North Carolina. When he was three his mother died, so he, his father and his brother moved in with their aunt near Greensboro. His aunt ran a private school that he attended until he was fifteen. After leaving school, he worked at his uncle's drugstore until he was nineteen. When he was nineteen, he was offered the opportunity to go out to Texas, with a family friend, who was going to visit his sons. In La Salle County, Texas, he lived on a ranch with Dr. James Hall's son for two years. It is thought that many of his story ideas originated from living on the ranch. After living in La Salle County, he moved to Austin, where he lived with the James Harrel family. This is the location were he is said to have gotten his pseudonym, by often saying to the family cat "Oh, Henry." After spending three years with the Harrel family, he married a young lady named Athol Estes. He then got a job at First National Bank, where he was a teller. He worked there from 1891-1896, when the bank was examined and some irregularities were found. He was blamed, he fled from Austin to New Orleans and then onto Honduras.

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Famous Last Words from Henry, O. (1862-1910) Henry, O. "Turn up the lights, I don't want to go home in the dark." (Quoting a popular song, 5 June 1910) Famous Last Words Henry, O. The Famous Last words of many celebrities are often intriguing, thought provoking and sometimes humorous. If you are interested in famous quotes by celebrated, eminent, distinguished and prominent celebrities then you will be even more fascinated by many of their Famous Last Words! The famous last words quotes can be in the form of extracts, passages or lines from famous speeches and quotes providing an illustration of or allusion citing the famous events of the day or in the life of the well-known celebrity. The last words, or epitaphs, can be found in crypts, tomb, graveyards, mausoleums and other types of last resting places. The last word inscriptions are often found on the grave of the most eminent, distinguished and prominent celebrities and sometimes marked on their tombstone, gravestone or headstone. Henry, O. Famous Last Words and quotations

28. Creative Quotations From O. Henry (1862-1910) O. Henry in quotations to inspire creative thinking. http://www.creativequotations.com/one/382.htm

Home Search Indexes E-books ... creative Creative Quotations from . . . O. Henry 1862-1910) born on Sep 11 US "short-story writer, journalist". "William Sidney Porter was a prolific writer of short stories with surprise endings, e.g., "The Gift of the Magi."" Search millions of documents for O. Henry Fishing For Creativity Creative Perfumes Write what you like; there is no other rule. Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of life. It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are. "Life is sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating." A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows. Published Sources for the above Quotations: F: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994." R: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994." A: ""The Octopus Marooned."" N: ""Gift of the Magi," 1906." K: ""A Ruler of Men.""

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O. Henry O. Henry, the pen name of William Sydney Porter, was born in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1862. His mother died of tuberculosis when he was three; his father, a doctor, became an alcoholic and tried to invent a perpetual motion machine. Educated in a small school run by his aunt, young Porter went to work in a drugstore at fifteen. Later he traveled to Texas to work on a ranch (he too was showing symptoms of tuberculosis), and spent ten years in Austin, Texas, where he married, worked as a bank teller, and purchased a weekly newspaper, The Rolling Stone . But the paper failed, and in 1894 Porter was accused of embezzling bank funds. Eventually he fled to Honduras and returned only in 1897 to be with his dying wife. Committed to a federal penitentiary in Ohio, he began writing under the name O. Henry. Following his release in 1901, he lived in New York City, his beloved "Baghdad on the Subway." A prolific writer, often turning out a story a week, he kept his real! identity a secret as his fame as O. Henry grew. His first book, Cabbages and Kings Message Board Back to Classic Short Stories

30. O. Henry - Wikiquote O. Henry (pen name of William Sydney Porter) (18621910). Writer. What is theworld at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/O._Henry

You did it! Over US$240,000 was donated in the 21 day fund drive. Thank you for your generosity! You are still welcome to make a donation or purchase Wikimedia merchandise O. Henry From Wikiquote edit O. Henry (pen name of William Sydney Porter) (1862-1910) Writer What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it? Cabbages and Kings (1904) Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen —the census taker —and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the "Four Million." Preface, The Four Million A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience. The Gold that Glittered (1910) Strictly Business One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas. The Gift of the Magi (1906) The Four Million There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

31. O. Henry [1862-1910] At Spirit Of America Bookstore Complete listings of the short fiction works of William Porter, who wrote as O.Henry a century ago, and is still known for his surprise endings. http://www.genordell.com/stores/spirit/OHenry.htm

Spirit of America Bookstore O. Henry Pages Profile Original Collections Later Collections Single-Story Books ... Links 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. Ayn Rand [1905-82] 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.

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34. William Sydney Porter William Sydney Porter (O. Henry), 18621910. By Jennifer Winborne Student,University of North Carolina at Pembroke. After Mark Twain and Edgar Allen Poe, http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/18661913/lit/porter.htm

Postbellum America, 1866-1913: William Sydney Porter (O. Henry), 1862-1910 By Jennifer Winborne Student, University of North Carolina at Pembroke Two themes that are trademarks of William Sydney Porter’s stories are his reversal of the narrative and his reversal of a character’s nature. In simple terms Porter begins a story in one direction and just when the reader thinks they can predict the ending, he sends it in a totally different direction. In his stories, people who are characterized as one thing, often are the complete opposite. An example of these two themes can be found in the short story The Princess and the Puma . Josefa O'Donnell, a princess, is a pistol wearing, roping, riding cowgirl, which is a total reversal of the princess archetype. In reading this story the reader thinks that the hero, Ripley Givens, will save the princess from a mountain lion that is crouched waiting to spring on her at a watering hole. Instead Porter sends the narrative in a whole new direction, where instead she supposedly saves him from the mountain lion and does not marry him at the end of the story. One technique that is typical of Porter is his surprise endings. In The Princess and the Puma Bibliography http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/o/ohenry19re.htm

35. O Henry - Books And Biography To read literature by O Henry, select from the list on the left. O. Henry (18621910)was born William Sydney Porter in Greenboro, North Carolina. http://www.readprint.com/author-45/O-Henry

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38. The O. Henry Prize Stories O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter (18621910), who wrote andpublished more than 250 short stories between 1903 and 1910. http://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/resources/faq.html

var AlwaysOnTab=-1; About the Series Prize Story Selection Submission Information About the Series Editor and Prize Jury ... Academic Resources ABOUT THE SERIES What is THE O. HENRY PRIZE STORIES? The O. Henry Prize Stories is an annual collection of the year's twenty best stories published in American and Canadian magazines, written in English. Who was O. Henry? O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), who wrote and published more than 250 short stories between 1903 and 1910. Among his best- known stories: "The Gift of the Magi," "The Last Leaf," and "The Ransom of Red Chief." Read more about the life of O. Henry What is the origin of the series? Eight years after O. Henry's death, in April 1918, the Twilight Club (founded in 1883 and later known as the Society of Arts and Letters), held a dinner in his honor at the Hotel McAlpin in New York City. His friends remembered him so enthusiastically that a committee to meet at the Hotel Biltmore in December 1918 to establish an O. Henry memorial. The committee decided to award prizes in his name for short story writers, and it formed a Committee of Award to read the short stories published in a year and to pick the winners. In the words of Blanche Colton Williams (1879-1944), the first of the nine series editors, the memorial intended to "strengthen the art of the short story and to stimulate younger authors." O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories 1919

39. Bold Type: O. Henry Award FAQ O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter (18621910) who wrote andpublished more than 250 short stories between 1903 and 1910. http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/ohenry/0998/faq.html

What is the O. Henry Awards? The O. Henry Awards is an annual collection of the year's best stories published in American and Canadian magazines and written by American or Canadian authors. How old is the series? The awards were established in 1918 by a group called the Society of Arts and Sciences as "a monument to O. Henry's genius." The idea, originally, was to present two cash prizes to the best and second best stories, written by Americans and published in American magazines, at an annual awards dinner. As an extension of these awards, a volume of the top stories of the year was first published by Doubleday in 1919. Anchor Books, an imprint of Doubleday continues to publish the series. Who was O. Henry? O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter (1862-1910) who wrote and published more than 250 short stories between 1903 and 1910. Among his best- known stories: "The Gift of the Magi," "The Last Leaf," and "The Ransom of Red Chief." Who chooses the stories for each volume of the O. Henry Awards? The series editor, currently Larry Dark, selects 20 stories from among the

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