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American short story author

O. Henry
Portrait past W. M. Vanderweyde (1909)
Born	William Sidney Porter (1862-09-11)September eleven, 1862 Greensboro, Due north Carolina, U.S.
Died	June 5, 1910(1910-06-05) (aged 47) New York City, U.S.
Resting identify	Riverside Cemetery, Asheville, NC
Pen name	O. Henry, Olivier Henry, Oliver Henry[1]
Occupation	Writer
Language	English
Nationality	American
Genre	Curt story

William Sydney Porter (September eleven, 1862 – June 5, 1910), better known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer.

Porter was born in Greensboro, North Carolina. He moved to Texas in 1882, where he met his wife, Athol Estes, with whom he had ii children. In 1902, later on the expiry of his wife, Porter moved to New York, where he soon remarried. It was while he was in New York that Porter'southward most intensive writing period occurred, with Porter writing 381 brusque stories.

Porter's works include "The Gift of the Magi", "The Duplicity of Hargraves", and "The Ransom of Reddish Chief". His stories are known for their surprise endings and witty narration. Porter besides wrote verse and not-fiction.

Porter's legacy includes the O. Henry Award, an annual prize awarded to outstanding curt stories.

Biography [edit]

Early life [edit]

William Sidney Porter was born on September xi, 1862, in Greensboro, Due north Carolina, during the American Civil War. He changed the spelling of his centre proper 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 Apr 20, 1858. When William was 3, his mother died after giving nascence to her third kid, and he and his father moved into the home of his paternal grandmother. Every bit a kid, Porter was always reading, everything from classics to dime novels; his favorite works were Lane'due south translation of Ane Thousand and 1 Nights and Burton'south Anatomy of Melancholy.^[two]

Porter graduated from his aunt Evelina Maria Porter's simple school in 1876. He then enrolled at the Lindsey Street Loftier School. His aunt continued to tutor him until he was fifteen. In 1879, he started working in his uncle's drugstore in Greensboro, and on August 30, 1881, at the age of xix, Porter was licensed as a pharmacist. At the drugstore, he also showed his natural artistic talents by sketching the townsfolk.

Life in Texas [edit]

Porter as a young human being in Austin

Porter traveled along with James G. Hall to Texas in March 1882, hoping that a change of air would help alleviate a persistent cough he had developed. He took up residence on the sheep ranch of Richard Hall, James Hall's son, in La Salle County and helped out every bit a shepherd, ranch hand, cook, and baby-sitter. While on the ranch, he learned $.25 of Spanish and German from the mix of ethnic & immigrant ranch hands. He as well spent time reading classic literature.

Porter's health did improve. He traveled with Richard to Austin, Texas in 1884, where he decided to remain and was welcomed into the home of Richard's friends, Joseph Harrell and his wife. Porter resided with the Harrells for three years. He went to work briefly for the Morley Brothers Drug Visitor as a chemist. Porter then moved on to work for the Harrell Cigar Store located in the Driskill Hotel. He also began writing equally a sideline and wrote many of his early on stories in the Harrell house.

As a young bachelor, Porter led an agile social life in Austin. He was known for his wit, story-telling and musical talents. He played both the guitar and mandolin. He sang in the choir at St. David'south Episcopal Church and became a member of the "Hill City Quartette", a grouping of young men who sang at gatherings and serenaded young women of the town.

The Porter family unit, early on 1890s – Athol, daughter Margaret, William

Porter met and began courting Athol Estes, 17 years quondam and from a wealthy family. Historians believe Porter met Athol at the laying of the cornerstone of the Texas Land Capitol on March ii, 1885. Her mother objected to the lucifer considering Athol was ill, suffering from tuberculosis. On July 1, 1887, Porter eloped with Athol and they were married in the parlor of the domicile of the Reverend R. Grand. Smoot, pastor of the Fundamental Presbyterian Church, where the Estes family attended church. The couple continued to participate in musical and theater groups, and Athol encouraged her husband to pursue his writing. Athol gave birth to a son in 1888, who died hours after birth, and then daughter Margaret Worth Porter in September 1889.

Porter's friend Richard Hall became Texas Land Commissioner and offered Porter a job. Porter started as a draftsman at the Texas General Land Office (GLO) on January 12, 1887, at a salary of $100 a month, drawing maps from surveys and fieldnotes. The salary was plenty to support his family, but he continued his contributions to magazines and newspapers. In the GLO building, he began developing characters and plots for such stories as "Georgia's Ruling" (1900), and "Buried Treasure" (1908). The castle-similar building he worked in was fifty-fifty woven into some of his tales such equally "Bexar Scrip No. 2692" (1894). His job at the GLO was a political appointment past Hall. Hall ran for governor in the election of 1890 but lost. Porter resigned on January 21, 1891, the day after the new governor, Jim Hogg, was sworn in.

Porter every bit a clerk at the First National Bank in Austin, c. 1892

The same year, Porter began working at the First National Depository financial institution of Austin equally a teller and bookkeeper at the same salary he had fabricated at the GLO. The bank was operated informally, and Porter was apparently careless in keeping his books and may have embezzled funds. In 1894, he was accused by the depository financial institution of embezzlement and lost his job but was not indicted at the fourth dimension.

He so worked total-fourth dimension on his humorous weekly called The Rolling Stone, which he started while working at the banking company. The Rolling Stone featured satire on life, people, and politics and included Porter'south brusk stories and sketches. Although somewhen reaching a height circulation of one,500, The Rolling Stone failed in Apr 1895 because the paper never provided an adequate income. However, his writing and drawings had defenseless the attention of the editor at the Houston Post.

Porter and his family moved to Houston in 1895, where he started writing for the Mail. His salary was merely $25 a month, simply it rose steadily every bit his popularity increased. Porter gathered ideas for his cavalcade by loitering in hotel lobbies and observing and talking to people there. This was a technique he used throughout his writing career.

While he was in Houston, federal auditors audited the First National Banking concern of Austin and found the embezzlement shortages that led to his firing. A federal indictment followed, and he was arrested on charges of embezzlement.

Flight and return [edit]

After his arrest, Porter's father-in-law posted his bond. He was due to stand trial on July 7, 1896, but the day before, as he was irresolute trains to go to the courthouse, he got scared. He fled, starting time to New Orleans and later to Republic of honduras, with which the United States had no extradition treaty at that fourth dimension. Porter lived in Honduras for six months, until January 1897. There he became friends with Al Jennings, a notorious train robber, who later wrote a book about their friendship.^[3] He holed up in a Trujillo hotel, where he wrote Cabbages and Kings. Porter had sent Athol and Margaret back to Austin to live with Athol's parents. Unfortunately, Athol became too ill to encounter Porter in Republic of honduras equally he had planned. When he learned that his married woman was dying, Porter returned to Austin in February 1897 and surrendered to the court, pending trial. Athol Estes Porter died from tuberculosis (then known as consumption) on July 25, 1897.

Porter had little to say in his own defense at his trial and was found guilty on February 17, 1898, of embezzling $854.08. He was sentenced to 5 years in prison house and imprisoned on March 25, 1898, at the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio. Porter was a licensed chemist and was able to piece of work in the prison hospital as the nighttime druggist. He was given his own room in the hospital wing, and there is no record that he really spent time in the cell block of the prison. He had 14 stories published under various pseudonyms while he was in prison only was becoming best known as "O. Henry", a pseudonym that start appeared over the story "Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking" in the Dec 1899 upshot of McClure's Magazine. A friend of his in New Orleans would forward his stories to publishers then that they had no idea that the author was imprisoned.

Porter was released on July 24, 1901, for skilful behavior after serving iii years. He reunited with his girl Margaret, now historic period 11, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where Athol's parents had moved after Porter'southward confidence.

Later on life and death [edit]

Porter's well-nigh prolific writing menstruum started in 1902, when he moved to New York City to be near his publishers. While there, he wrote 381 short stories. He wrote a story a week for over a year for the New York World Sunday Magazine. His wit, label, and plot twists were adored by his readers merely often panned by critics.

Porter married once more in 1907 to babyhood sweetheart Sarah (Sallie) Lindsey Coleman, whom he met again later on revisiting his native state of Northward Carolina. Sarah Lindsey Coleman was herself a writer and wrote a romanticized and fictionalized version of their correspondence and courtship in her novella Wind of Destiny.^[4]

Porter was a heavy drinker, and by 1908, his markedly deteriorating wellness affected his writing. In 1909, Sarah left him, and he died on June 5, 1910, of cirrhosis of the liver, complications of diabetes, and an enlarged eye. Later funeral services in New York City, he was buried in the Riverside Cemetery in Asheville, North Carolina.^[5] His daughter Margaret Worth Porter had a short writing career from 1913 to 1916. She married cartoonist Oscar Cesare of New York in 1916; they were divorced four years afterward. She died of tuberculosis in 1927 and was buried next to her father.

Stories [edit]

O. Henry's stories frequently have surprise endings. In his twenty-four hour period he was chosen the American answer to Guy de Maupassant. While both authors wrote plot twist endings, O. Henry's stories were considerably more playful, and are likewise known for their witty narration.

Well-nigh of O. Henry's stories are set in his own time, the early on 20th century. Many accept place in New York City and oftentimes feature characters with blueish-collar jobs, such as policemen and waitresses.

Cabbages and Kings was his first drove of stories, followed by The 4 1000000. The 2nd drove opens with a reference to Ward McAllister'southward claim that there were "...only 'Four Hundred' people in New York Metropolis who were really worth noticing. Simply a wiser man has arisen—the census taker—and his larger judge of human being involvement has been preferred in marker out the field of these little stories of the 4 Million."

He had an obvious affection for the urban center, which he called "Bagdad-on-the-Subway",^{[half dozen]} and many of his stories are set at that place—while others are set in pocket-size towns or in other cities.

His final work was "Dream", a short story intended for the magazine The Cosmopolitan. It was never completed.^[7]

Among his nearly famous stories are:

• "The Gift of the Magi" is about a young couple, Jim and Della, who are brusque of money but desperately desire to buy each other Christmas gifts. Unbeknownst to Jim, Della sells her nigh valuable possession, her beautiful hair, in order to buy a platinum pull a fast one on chain for Jim's lookout; while unbeknownst to Della, Jim sells his own most valuable possession, his watch, to buy jeweled combs for Della's pilus. The essential premise of this story has been copied, re-worked, parodied, and otherwise re-told countless times in the century since information technology was written.
• "The Ransom of Red Chief" in which two men kidnap a male child of 10 years former to ransom him. The boy turns out to be then spoiled and obnoxious that the desperate men ultimately pay the boy's father $250 to take him back.
• "The Cop and the Anthem" most a New York Urban center hobo named Soapy who sets out to get arrested and so that he can exist a guest of the city jail instead of sleeping out in the cold wintertime. Despite his all-time efforts at committing petty theft, vandalism, disorderly conduct, and "flirting" with a young prostitute, Soapy fails to draw the attention of the constabulary. Dejected, he stops in forepart of a church, where an organ anthem inspires him to clean up his life; however, he is charged with loitering, and sentenced to 3 months in prison.
• "A Retrieved Reformation" tells the tale of safecracker Jimmy Valentine, a man recently freed from prison. He goes to a town banking concern to case it before he robs information technology. As he walks to the door, he catches the center of the broker's beautiful daughter. They immediately fall in love and Valentine decides to give up his criminal career. He moves into the boondocks, taking upwardly the identity of Ralph Spencer, a shoemaker. Just as he is almost to get out to deliver his specialized tools to an one-time associate, a lawman who recognizes him arrives at the bank. Jimmy and his fiancée and her family are at the bank, inspecting a new safe when a child accidentally gets locked inside the airtight vault. Knowing information technology volition seal his fate, Valentine opens the rubber to rescue the kid. All the same, much to Valentine's surprise, the lawman denies recognizing him and lets him get.
• "The Duplicity of Hargraves" tells the story of the Talbots, a male parent and daughter from the Old South who move to Washington, DC, newly poor afterward the Ceremonious War. An role player, Hargraves, offers Mr. Talbot coin, which he is as well proud to take. Simply when Talbot is approached past an old human being, a sometime slave who gives him money to settle an old family debt, he accepts it. It is later revealed that Hargraves secretly portrayed the slave.
• "The Caballero's Fashion" in which Porter's most famous character, the Cisco Kid, is introduced. It was first published in 1907 in the July issue of Everybody'due south Mag and collected in the volume Centre of the West that aforementioned year. In after moving-picture show and Television depictions, the Kid would be portrayed as a dashing adventurer, maybe skirting the edges of the police, only primarily on the side of the angels. In the original short story, the merely story by Porter to feature the grapheme, the Kid is a murderous, ruthless border desperado, whose trail is indomitable by a heroic Texas Ranger.

Pen proper noun [edit]

Porter used a number of pen names (including "O. Henry" or "Olivier Henry") in the early part of his writing career; other names included Southward.H. Peters, James 50. Bliss, T.B. Dowd, and Howard Clark.^[8] Even so, the name "O. Henry" seemed to garner the most attending from editors and the public, and was used exclusively by Porter for his writing past near 1902. He gave diverse explanations for the origin of his pen name.^[9] In 1909 he gave an interview to The New York Times, in which he gave an account of it:

It was during these New Orleans days that I adopted my pen name of O. Henry. I said to a friend: "I'k going to transport out some stuff. I don't know if it amounts to much, so I want to get a literary alias. Help me option out a good one." He suggested that we go a newspaper and choice a proper noun from the get-go list of notables that we institute in it. In the gild columns nosotros found the account of a fashionable ball. "Here nosotros have our notables," said he. We looked down the list and my eye lighted on the name Henry, "That'll do for a final proper name," said I. "At present for a first proper name. I want something short. None of your three-syllable names for me." "Why don't you use a plain initial alphabetic character, and then?" asked my friend. "Good," said I, "O is near the easiest letter written, and O information technology is." A newspaper in one case wrote and asked me what the O stands for. I replied, "O stands for Olivier, the French for Oliver." And several of my stories accordingly appeared in that newspaper nether the proper name Olivier Henry.^[10]

William Trevor writes in the introduction to The World of O. Henry: Roads of Destiny and Other Stories (Hodder & Stoughton, 1973) that "there was a prison guard named Orrin Henry" in the Ohio State Penitentiary "whom William Sydney Porter ... immortalised every bit O. Henry".

According to J. F. Clarke, information technology is from the name of the French pharmacist Etienne Ossian Henry, whose name is in the U.S. Dispensary which Porter used working in the prison house chemist's.^[11]

Writer and scholar Guy Davenport offers his own hypothesis: "The pseudonym that he began to write under in prison is constructed from the offset 2 letters of Ohio and the 2d and final two of penitentiary."^[ix]

Legacy [edit]

The O. Henry Laurels is a prestigious annual prize named after Porter and given to outstanding brusque stories.

A film was made in 1952 featuring five stories, called O. Henry's Total House. The episode garnering the most disquisitional acclaim^[12] was "The Cop and the Anthem" starring Charles Laughton and Marilyn Monroe. The other stories are "The Clarion Phone call" starring Richard Widmark, "The Last Foliage", "The Ransom of Red Chief" (starring Fred Allen and Oscar Levant), and "The Gift of the Magi".

A 1957 idiot box series The O. Henry Playhouse was syndicated in 39 episodes to 188 markets.^[13] Actor Thomas Mitchell portrayed O. Henry in each episode as he interacted with his characters or related his latest story to his publisher or a friend.^[14]

The 1986 Indian album tv series Katha Sagar adapted several of Henry'due south curt stories every bit episodes including "The Last Leaf".

An opera in one long human action, The Furnished Room, with music by Daniel Steven Crafts and libretto by Richard Kuss, is based on O. Henry's story of the aforementioned name.

The O. Henry Business firm and O. Henry Hall, both in Austin, Texas, are named for him. O. Henry Hall, now owned by the Texas Country University System, previously served every bit the federal courthouse in which O. Henry was convicted of embezzlement. The O. Henry House has been the site of the O. Henry Pun-Off, an annual spoken word competition inspired by Porter's honey of language, since 1978.

Porter has unproblematic schools named for him in Greensboro, Northward Carolina (William Sydney Porter Unproblematic)^[15] and Garland, Texas (O. Henry Elementary), too as a middle school in Austin, Texas (O. Henry Middle Schoolhouse).^[16] The O. Henry Hotel in Greensboro is also named for Porter, as is US 29 which is O. Henry Boulevard.

In 1962, the Soviet Postal Service issued a postage stamp commemorating O. Henry'due south 100th birthday. On September eleven, 2012, the Usa Mail service issued a stamp commemorating the 150th anniversary of O. Henry's birth.^[17]

On November 23, 2011, Barack Obama quoted O. Henry while granting pardons to 2 turkeys named "Liberty" and "Peace".^[eighteen] In response, political science professor P. S. Ruckman Jr. and Texas attorney Scott Henson filed a formal application for a posthumous pardon in September 2012, the same month that the U.S. Mail issued its O. Henry stamp.^[xix] Previous attempts were made to obtain such a pardon for Porter in the administrations of Woodrow Wilson, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan,^[20] only no ane had ever bothered to file a formal application.^[21] Ruckman and Henson argued that Porter deserved a pardon considering (1) he was a law-constant denizen prior to his conviction; (2) his offense was pocket-sized; (iii) he had an exemplary prison record; (4) his post-prison life clearly indicated rehabilitation; (5) he would have been an excellent candidate for clemency in his time, had he but practical for pardon; (6) by today's standards, he remains an first-class candidate for clemency; and (7) his pardon would exist a well-deserved symbolic gesture and more.^[nineteen] The pardon remains ungranted.

In 2021 the Library of America included O. Henry in their list by publishing a drove of 101 of his stories, edited by Ben Yagoda.^[22]

Bibliography [edit]

Stories [edit]

Collections:

• Cabbages and Kings (1904), novel consisting of linked stories. Collection of xix short stories:

  "The Proem: By the Carpenter", "'Fox-in-the-Morning'", "The Lotus and the Canteen", "Smith", "Caught", "Cupid'southward Exile Number Two", "The Phonograph and the Graft", "Coin Maze", "The Admiral", "The Flag Paramount", "The Shamrock and the Palm", "The Remnants of the Code", "Shoes", "Ships", "Masters of Arts", "Dicky", "Rouge et Noir", "Two Recalls", "The Vitagraphoscope"

• The Four Million (1906), drove of 25 curt stories:

  "Tobin'southward Palm", "The Souvenir of the Magi", "A Cosmopolite in a Cafe", "Betwixt Rounds", "The Skylight Room", "A Service of Love", "The Coming-Out of Maggie", "Human being About Town", "The Cop and the Anthem", "An Adjustment of Nature", "Memoirs of a Yellow Canis familiaris", "The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein", "Mammon and the Archer", "Springtime à la Carte", "The Greenish Door", "From the Cabby'due south Seat", "An Unfinished Story", "The Caliph, Cupid and the Clock", "Sisters of the Golden Circle", "The Romance of a Decorated Broker", "Later 20 Years", "Lost on Dress Parade", "Past Courier", "The Furnished Room", "The Brief Debut of Tildy"

• The Trimmed Lamp (1907), collection of 25 short stories:

  "The Trimmed Lamp", "A Madison Square Arabian Nighttime", "The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball", "The Pendulum", "Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen", "The Assessor of Success", "The Heir-apparent from Cactus City", "The Badge of Policeman O'Roon", "Brickdust Row" (made into the 1918 motion picture, Everybody'southward Girl), "The Making of a New Yorker", "Vanity and Some Sables", "The Social Triangle", "The Purple Apparel", "The Foreign Policy of Company 99", "The Lost Blend", "A Harlem Tragedy", "'The Guilty Party'", "A Midsummer Knight'due south Dream", "According to Their Lights", "The Last Leaf", "The Count and the Hymeneals Invitee", "The Country of Elusion", "The Ferry of Unfulfilment", "The Tale of a Tainted Tenner", "Elsie in New York"

• Heart of the West (1907), drove of 19 short stories:

  "Hearts and Crosses", "The Bribe of Mack", "Telemachus, Friend", "The Handbook of Hymen", "The Pimienta Pancakes", "Seats of the Haughty", "Hygeia at the Solito", "An Afternoon Miracle", "The College Abdication", "Cupid à la Carte du jour", "The Caballero'southward Way", "The Sphinx Apple", "The Missing Chord", "A Call Loan", "The Princess and the Puma", "The Indian Summer of Dry out Valley Johnson", "Christmas by Injunction", "A Chaparral Prince", "The Reformation of Calliope"

• The Gentle Grafter (1908), collection of fourteen short stories:

  "The Octopus Marooned", "Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet", "Modern Rural Sports", "The Chair of Philanthromathematics", "The Hand That Riles the World", "The Verbal Science of Matrimony", "A Midsummer Masquerade", "Shearing the Wolf", "Innocents of Broadway", "Censor in Art", "The Human Higher Up", "Tempered Current of air", "Hostages to Momus", "The Ethics of Pig"

• The Voice of the City (1908), collection of 25 brusque stories:

  "The Vocalization of the City", "The Complete Life of John Hopkins", "A Lickpenny Lover", "Dougherty'south Eye-opener", "'Piffling Speck in Garnered Fruit'", "The Harbinger", "While the Auto Waits", "A Comedy in Rubber", "One M Dollars", "The Defeat of the City", "The Shocks of Doom", "The Plutonian Fire", "Nemesis and the Candy Man", "Squaring the Circle", "Roses, Ruses and Romance", "The City of Dreadful Night", "The Easter of the Soul", "The Fool-killer", "Transients in Arcadia", "The Rathskeller and the Rose", "The Blaring Telephone call", "Extradited from Bohemia", "A Philistine in Bohemia", "From Each According to His Ability", "The Memento"

• Roads of Destiny (1909), collection of 22 short stories:

  "Roads of Destiny", "The Guardian of the Accolade", "The Discounters of Money", "The Enchanted Profile", "Adjacent to Reading Matter", "Art and the Bronco", "Phoebe", "A Double-dyed Deceiver", "The Passing of Black Eagle", "A Retrieved Reformation", "Cherchez la Femme", "Friends in San Rosario", "The Quaternary in Salvador", "The Emancipation of Billy", "The Enchanted Osculation", "A Departmental Example", "The Renaissance at Charleroi", "On Behalf of the Direction", "Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking", "The Halberdier of the Little Rheinschloss", "2 Renegades", "The Lonesome Road"

• Options (1909), collection of xvi short stories:

  "'The Rose of Dixie'", "The Tertiary Ingredient", "The Hiding of Black Bill", "Schools and Schools", "Thimble, Thimble", "Supply and Demand", "Buried Treasure", "To Him Who Waits", "He As well Serves", "The Moment of Victory", "The Caput-hunter", "No Story", "The College Pragmatism", "All-time-seller", "Rus in Urbe", "A Poor Rule"

• The Ii Women (1910), collection of 2 short stories:

  "A Fog in Santone", "Bullheaded Homo'south Vacation"

• Strictly Business (1910), collection of 23 brusque stories:

  "Strictly Business", "The Gold That Glittered", "Babes in the Jungle", "The Day Resurgent", "The Fifth Wheel", "The Poet and the Peasant", "The Robe of Peace", "The Girl and the Graft", "The Call of the Tame", "The Unknown Quantity", "The Affair's the Play", "A Ramble in Aphasia", "A Municipal Report", "Psyche and the Pskyscraper", "A Bird of Bagdad", "Compliments of the Season", "A Dark in New Arabia", "The Girl and the Addiction", "Proof of the Pudding", "Past One at Rooney'due south", "The Venturers", "The Duel", "'What Y'all Want'"

• Whirligigs (1910), collection of 24 brusque stories:

  "The World and the Door", "The Theory and the Hound", "The Hypotheses of Failure", "Calloway'southward Code", "A Matter of Mean Elevation", "Girl", "Sociology in Serge and Straw", "The Ransom of Red Main", "The Marry Month of May", "A Technical Error", "Suite Homes and Their Romance", "The Whirligig of Life", "A Sacrifice Hit", "The Roads Nosotros Take", "A Blackjack Bargainer", "The Song and the Sergeant", "I Dollar's Worth", "A Newspaper Story", "Tommy'due south Burglar", "A Chaparral Christmas Gift", "A Little Local Colour", "Georgia's Ruling", "Blind Man's Vacation", "Madame Bo-Peep of the Ranches"

• Sixes and Sevens (1911), collection of 25 brusque stories:

  "The Last of the Troubadours", "The Sleuths", "Witches' Loaves", "The Pride of the Cities", "Property Upwardly a Train", "Ulysses and the Dogman", "The Champion of the Weather", "Makes the Whole World Kin", "At Artillery with Morpheus", "A Ghost of a Take chances", "Jimmy Hayes and Muriel", "The Door of Unrest", "The Duplicity of Hargraves", "Permit Me Feel Your Pulse", "October and June", "The Church with an Overshot-Wheel", "New York by Camp Burn Light", "The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes", "The Lady Higher Up", "The Greater Coney", "Constabulary and Social club", "Transformation of Martin Burney", "The Caliph and the Cad", "The Diamond of Kali", "The Day We Celebrate"

• Rolling Stones (1912), drove of

  23 short stories: "The Dream", "A Ruler of Men", "The Atavism of John Tom Piddling Bear", "Helping the Other Fellow", "The Marionettes", "The Marquis and Miss Sally", "A Fog in Santone", "The Friendly Call", "A Dinner at ———", "Audio and Fury" (1903, "Tictocq", "Tracked to Doom", "A Snapshot at the President", "An Unfinished Christmas Story", "The Unprofitable Servant", "Aristocracy Versus Hash", "The Prisoner of Zembla", "A Strange Story", "Fickle Fortune, or How Gladys Hustled", "An Apology", "Lord Oakhurst'southward Curse", "Bexar Scrip No. 2692.", "Queries and Answers"

  12 poems:

  "The Pewee", "Nothing to say", "The Murderer"

  Some Postscripts: "Ii Portraits", "A Contribution", "The Sometime Subcontract", "Vanity", "The Lullaby Male child", "Chanson de Bohême", "Hard to Forget", "Driblet a Tear in This Slot", "Tamales"

  letters: "Some Messages"

• Waifs and Strays (1917), collection of 12 brusk stories:

  "The Red Roses of Tonia", "Circular The Circle", "The Rubber Establish's Story", "Out of Nazareth", "Confessions of a Humorist", "The Sparrows in Madison Square", "Hearts and Easily", "The Cactus", "The Detective Detector", "The Dog and the Playlet", "A Piffling Talk About Mobs", "The Snow Homo"

• O. Henryana (1920), collection of 7 short stories:

  "The Crucible", "A Lunar Episode", "Iii Paragraphs", "Bulger'southward Friend", "A Professional person Hush-hush", "The Elusive Tenderloin", "The Struggle of the Outliers"

• Postscripts (1923), collection of 103 brusque stories, 26 poems and 4 articles:

  "The Sensitive Colonel Jay", "Taking No Chances", "A Affair of Loyalty", "The Other Side of Information technology", "Journalistically Impossible", "The Ability of Reputation", "The Lark of Grief", "A Sporting Involvement", "Had A Apply for It", "The One-time Landmark", "A Personal Insult", "Toddlekins" (poem), "Reconciliation", "Buying a Piano", "Also Belatedly", "Nothing to say" (verse form), "'Goin Dwelling house fur Christmas'" (verse form), "Just a Fiddling Clammy", "Her Mysterious Charm", "Convinced", "His Dilemma", "Something for Baby" (verse form), "Some Mean solar day", "A Light-green Hand", "A Righteous Flare-up", "Getting at the Facts", "But for a Alter" (poem), "Too Wise", "A Fatal Mistake", "Prompt" (poem), "An Opportunity Declined", "Correcting a Great Injustice", "A Startling Sit-in", "Leap Year Advice" (article), "After Supper", "His Just Opportunity", "Getting Acquainted", "Answers to Inquiries" (article), "Urban center Peril", "Hush Money", "Relieved", "No Time to Lose", "A Villainous Play a trick on", "A Forced March" (verse form), "Book Review" (article), "A Provisional Pardon", "Inconsistency" (poem), "Bill Nye", "To a Portrait" (poem), "A Guarded Secret", "A Pastel", "Jim" (poem), "Board and Ancestors", "An X-Ray Fable", "A Universal Favorite", "Spring" (poem), "The Sporting Editor on Civilisation", "A Question of Direction", "The Old Farm" (poem), "Willing to Compromise", "Ridiculous", "Guessed Everything Else", "The Prisoner of Zembla", "Lucky Either Way", "The Bad Man", "Slight Mistake", "Delayed", "A Adept Story Spoiled", "Revenge", "No Help for Information technology", "Riley'southward Luck" (poem), "Not So Much a Tam Fool", "A Estimate-Proof Mystery Story", "Futility" (poem), "Wounded Veteran", "Her Ruse", "Why Conductors Are Morose", "The Pewee" (poem), "'Only to Lie-'" (poem), "The Sunday Excursionist", "Decoration Day", "Charge of the White Brigade" (verse form), "An Inspiration", "Coming To Him", "His Pension", "Winner", "Hungry Henry's Ruse", "A Proof Of Love" (poem), "I Consolation", "An Unsuccessful Experiment", "Superlatrives" (poem), "By Piece of cake Stages", "Fifty-fifty Worse", "The Stupor", "The Cynic", "Speaking of Big Winds", "An Original Idea", "Calculations", "A Valedictory", "Solemn Thoughts", "Explaining It", "Her Declining", "A Disagreement", "An E for a Knee" (verse form), "The Unconquerable" (poem), "An Expensive Veracity", "Grounds for Uneasiness", "It Covers Errors" (poem), "Recognition", "His Doubt", "A Cheering Thought", "What It Was", "Vanity" (poem), "Identified", "The Apple", "How Information technology Started", "How Red Conlin Told the Widow", "Why He Hesitated", "Turkish Questions" (poem), "Somebody Lied", "Marvelous", "The Confession of a Murderer", "Go Off the Earth" (verse form), "The Stranger's Entreatment", "The Practiced Boy", "The Colonel's Romance", "A Narrow Escape", "A Yr's Supply", "Eugene Field" (verse form), "Slightly Mixed", "Knew What Was Needed", "Some Ancient News Notes" (article), "A Sure Method"

• O. Henry Encore (1939), collection of 27 short stories, vii sketches and 10 poems:
  1. Function one. Stories: "A Night Errant", "In Mezzotint", "The Dissipated Jeweller", "How Willie Saved Male parent", "The Mirage on the Frio", "Sufficient Provocation", "The Bruised Reed", "Paderewski'due south Pilus", "A Mystery of Many Centuries", "A Strange Case", "Simmons' Saturday Night", "An Unknown Romance", "Jack the Behemothic Killer", "The Pint Flask", "An Odd Graphic symbol", "A Houston Romance", "The Fable of San Jacinto", "Binkley'due south Practical School of Journalism", "A New Microbe", "Vereton Villa", "Whisky Did It", "Zero New Under the Lord's day", "Led Off-target", "A Story for Men", "How She Got in the Swim", "The Barber Talks", "Barber Shop Hazard"
  2. Part 2. Sketches: "Did You See the Circus", "Thanksgiving Remarks", "When the Train Comes in", "Christmas Eve", "New year's day's Eve and Now it Came to Houston", "'Watchman, What of the Night?'", "Newspaper Poets"
  3. Role three. Newspaper Verse: "Topical Verse", "Cap Jessamines", "The Cricket", "My Broncho", "The Modern Venus", "Celestial Sounds", "The Snow", "Her Option", "'Fiddling Things, but Ain't They Whizzers?'", "Terminal Fall of the Alamo"

Uncollected short stories:

• "Tictocq, the Swell French Detective" (1894)
• "Tictocq, the Bang-up French Detective; or, A Soubrette's Diamonds" (1894)
• "A Blow All 'Round" (1895)
• "A Chicago Proposal" (1895)
• "A Fishy Story" (1895)
• "A Foretaste" (1895)
• "A Literal Caution" (1895)
• "A Philadelphia Diagnosis" (1895)
• "A Grand Dollar Verse form, was what the Literary Judgment of the Business organization Managing director Lost for the Paper" (1895)
• "All Right" (1895)
• "And Put Upwards a Dime" (1895)
• "Arrived" (1895)
• "Equally Her Share" (1895)
• "Ballad of the Passionate Eye" (1895)
• "Cheaper in Quantities" (1895)
• "Didn't Want Him Back" (1895)
• "Exercise You Know?" (1895)
• "Enlarging His Field" (1895)
• "Entirely Successful" (1895)
• "Extremes Met" (1895)
• "Faux to His Colors" (1895)
• "Family unit Pride" (1895)
• "He Was Behind With His Board" (1895)
• "Her Reckoning" (1895)
• "His Final Gamble" (1895)
• "Making the Most of It" (1895)
• "Might Be" (1895)
• "Armed services or Millinery?" (1895)
• "No Chestnuts Were Served" (1895)
• "No Earlier" (1895)
• "Not Hers" (1895)
• "Non Official Statistics, However" (1895)
• "Palmistry" (1895)
• "Prodigality" (1895)
• "Professional, But Hundred-to-one" (1895)
• "Prudent Precautions" (1895)
• "Same Thing" (1895)
• "Self Conceit" (1895)
• "Silvery Question Settled" (1895)
• "Sun Journalism, Memoranda of the Sabbath Editor of the New York Daily for Next Sunday'due south Contents" (1895)
• "The Fate It Deserved" (1895)
• "The Human at the Window" (1895)
• "The Modern Kind" (1895)
• "The New Hero" (1895)
• "The Odour Located" (1895)
• "The Instructor Taught" (1895)
• "The White Feather" (1895)
• "Uncle Sam'south Current of air" (1895)
• "Whole Handfuls" (1895)
• "Will She Fight as She Jokes? Hither Are Some Translations of Contempo Spanish Humour" (1895)
• "Yellow Specials, Latest Fashion of News Write Ups adopted by the sulphur-hued journals" (1895)
• "A Tragedy" (1896, as The Postman)
• "At an Auction" (1896)
• "Telegram" (1896)
• "His Courier" (1902)
• "The Flag" (1902)
• "The Guardian of the Scutcheon" (1903, equally Olivier Henry)
• "The Lotus and the Cockleburrs" (1903)
• "The Betoken of the Story" (1903, as Sydney Porter)
• "The Quest of Soapy" (1908)
• "A Christmas Pi" (1909, equally O. H-nry)
• "Adventures in Neurasthenia" (1910)
• "Concluding Story" (1910)

Poems [edit]

Uncollected poems:

• "Already Provided" (1895)
• "Archery" (1895)
• "At Cockcrow" (1895)
• "Honeymoon Vapourings" (1895)
• "Never, Until Now" (1895)
• "Ornamental" (1895)
• "The Imported Brand" (1895)
• "The Morning time glory" (1895)
• "The White Violet" (1895)
• "To Her" (XRay) Photograph" (1895)
• "Unseeing" (1895)
• "Promptings" (1899)
• "Sunset in the Far North" (1901)
• "The Captive" (1901)
• "Uncaptured Joy" (1901)
• "April" (1903)
• "Auto Bugle Song" (1903)
• "June" (1903)
• "Remorse" (1903)
• "Spring in the City" (1903)
• "To a Gibson Girl" (1903)
• "Two Chapters" (1903)
• "A Floral Valentine" (1905)

Not-fiction [edit]

• After Definitions (1895)
• The Reporter's Individual Lexicon (1903)
• Letter 1883 (1912)
• Letters 1884, 1885 (1912)
• Letters 1905 (1914)
• Letters from Prison house to his Daughter Margaret (1916)
• Letter 1901 (1917)
• Letters (1921)
• Letters to Lithopolis: from O. Henry to Mabel Wagnalls (1922)
• Letters (1923)
• Letter (1928)
• Letters 1906, 1909 (1931)
• Letters, etc. of 1883 (1931)

Musical adaptations [edit]

• The Furnished Room An opera in one long act based on the story of the same proper name. Music by Daniel Steven Crafts. Libretto by Richard Kuss.

References [edit]

1. ^ "The Marquis and Miss Emerge", Everybody's Magazine, vol 8, issue 6, June 1903, appeared under the byline "Oliver Henry"
2. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Henry, O.". Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Visitor.
3. ^ "Biography: O. Henry". North Carolina History . Retrieved March 10, 2014.
4. ^ Current-Garcia, Eugene (1993). O. Henry: A Study of the Curt Fiction (Commencement ed.). New York Metropolis: Twayne Publishers, Macmillan Publishing Co. p. 123. ISBN0-8057-0859-vi.
5. ^ Darty, Joshua (2018). Asheville'south Riverside Cemetery . ISBN9781467128193.
6. ^ Henry, O. "A Madison Square Arabian Dark," from The Trimmed Lamp: "Oh, I know what to practise when I see victuals coming toward me in little old Bagdad-on-the-Subway. I strike the asphalt three times with my forehead and get ready to spiel yarns for my supper. I claim descent from the belatedly Tommy Tucker, who was forced to manus out song harmony for his pre-digested wheaterina and spoopju." The Trimmed Lamp, Project Gutenberg text
7. ^ Henry, O. "Dream". Read Book Online website. Archived from the original on October nineteen, 2014. Retrieved April 22, 2014.
8. ^ "Porter, William Sydney (O. Henry)". Ncpedia.org.
9. ^ ^{a b} Guy Davenport, The Hunter Gracchus and Other Papers on Literature and Art, Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1996.
10. ^ "'O. Henry' on Himself, Life, and Other Things" (PDF), New York Times, April 4, 1909, p. SM9.
11. ^ Joseph F. Clarke (1977). Pseudonyms. BCA. p. 83.
12. ^ Crowther, Bosley (Oct 17, 1952). "THE SCREEN IN REVIEW; Four O. Henry Brusk Stories Offered in Fox Movie at Trans-Lux 52d Street". New York Timws. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
13. ^ The Billboard, May 13, 1957.
14. ^ "Celebrating The O. Henry Playhouse". ohenryplayhouse.com . Retrieved February 14, 2022.
15. ^ Arnett, Ethel Stephens (1973). For Whom Our Public Schools Were Named, Greensboro, North Carolina. Piedmont Press. p. 245.
16. ^ "O. Henry Middle School, Austin, TX". Archive.austinisd.org. Archived from the original on Oct 4, 2011. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
17. ^ "Celebrating Primary Storyteller O. Henry's 150th Birthday Anniversary". U.Due south. Mail service. Nearly.usps.com. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
18. ^ Mark Memmot, "Obama Quotes O. Henry on 'Purely American' Nature of Thanksgiving", The Ii-Way, NPR.org. Retrieved September 26, 2013.
19. ^ ^{a b} Jim Schlosser, "Delight Mr. President, Pardon O. Henry Archived September 28, 2013, at the Wayback Machine", O. Henry Magazine, October 2013. Retrieved September 26, 2013.
20. ^ "Presidential Pardons: Few from Obama, and None for O. Henry". Get.bloomberg.com. Feb 21, 2013. Archived from the original on June 26, 2014. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
21. ^ Edith Evan Asbury, "For O. Henry, a Hometown Festival", The New York Times, April 13, 1985. Retrieved September 26, 2013.
22. ^ "O. Henry: 101 Stories Edited by Ben Yagoda". Library of America. Retrieved September 14, 2021.

Further reading [edit]

• Smith, C. Alphonso (Nov 1916). "The Strange Example of Sydney Porter and 'O. Henry'". The Globe's Work: A History of Our Time. XXXIII (one): 54–64. Retrieved Feb 26, 2019.

External links [edit]

• Works by O. Henry in eBook form at Standard Ebooks
• Works past O. Henry at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or near O. Henry at Internet Annal
• Works by O. Henry at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• O. Henry Museum
• Biography and Works at LiteratureCollection.com
• "His Writers' Workshop? A Prison Cell", John J. Miller, The Wall Street Periodical, June 8, 2010
• O. Henry at IMDb
• O. Henry particular search at the Portal to Texas History (texashistory.unt.edu)
• O. Henry at Library of Congress Authorities, with 235 itemize records

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