He was best known for a short pen name, “O. Henry.” The man behind the stories, William Sydney Porter, was a complicated character with a sharp imagination. Porter wrote hundreds of stories in his ...
One of the most famous writers in Texas history is rarely identified as a Texan. William Sidney Porter, who wrote under the pen name "O. Henry," was one of the most widely read American authors during ...
THE QUIET LODGER OF IRVING PLACE— William Wash Williams—Dutton ($2.50). To most modern readers the tricky, concise, anecdotal stories of William Sydney Porter, who wrote some twelve volumes of them ...