William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910), better known by his pen name O. Henry

Non-fiction[edit]

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

Musical adaptations[edit]

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

References[edit]

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   ^ "The Marquis and Miss Sally", Everybody's Magazine, vol 8, issue 6, June 1903, appeared under the byline "Oliver Henry"
   
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   ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Henry, O." . Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company.
   
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   ^ "Biography: O. Henry". North Carolina History. Retrieved March 10, 2014.
   
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   ^ Current-Garcia, Eugene (1993). O. Henry: A Study of the Short Fiction (First ed.). New York City: Twayne Publishers, Macmillan Publishing Co. p. 123. ISBN 0-8057-0859-6.
   
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   ^ Darty, Joshua (2018). Asheville's Riverside Cemetery. ISBN 9781467128193.
   
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   ^ Henry, O. "A Madison Square Arabian Night," from The Trimmed Lamp: "Oh, I know what to do 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 late Tommy Tucker, who was forced to hand out vocal harmony for his pre-digested wheaterina and spoopju." The Trimmed Lamp, Project Gutenberg text
   
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   ^ Henry, O. "Dream". Read Book Online website. Archived from the original on October 19, 2014. Retrieved April 22, 2014.
   
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   ^ "Porter, William Sydney (O. Henry)". Ncpedia.org.
   
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   ^ Jump up to:^a b Guy Davenport, The Hunter Gracchus and Other Papers on Literature and Art, Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1996.
   
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    ^ "'O. Henry' on Himself, Life, and Other Things" (PDF), New York Times, April 4, 1909, p. SM9.
    
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    ^ Joseph F. Clarke (1977). Pseudonyms. BCA. p. 83.
    
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    ^ Crowther, Bosley (October 17, 1952). "THE SCREEN IN REVIEW; Four O. Henry Short Stories Offered in Fox Movie at Trans-Lux 52d Street". New York Timws. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
    
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    ^ The Billboard, May 13, 1957.
    
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    ^ "Celebrating The O. Henry Playhouse". ohenryplayhouse.com. Retrieved February 14, 2022.
    
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    ^ Arnett, Ethel Stephens (1973). For Whom Our Public Schools Were Named, Greensboro, North Carolina. Piedmont Press. p. 245.
    
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    ^ "O. Henry Middle School, Austin, TX". Archive.austinisd.org. Archived from the original on October 4, 2011. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
    
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    ^ "Celebrating Master Storyteller O. Henry's 150th Birthday Anniversary". U.S. Postal Service. About.usps.com. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
    
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    ^ Mark Memmot, "Obama Quotes O. Henry on 'Purely American' Nature of Thanksgiving", The Two-Way, NPR.org. Retrieved September 26, 2013.
    
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    ^ Jump up to:^a b Jim Schlosser, "Please Mr. President, Pardon O. Henry Archived September 28, 2013, at the Wayback Machine", O. Henry Magazine, October 2013. Retrieved September 26, 2013.
    
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    ^ "Presidential Pardons: Few from Obama, and None for O. Henry". Go.bloomberg.com. February 21, 2013. Archived from the original on June 26, 2014. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
    
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    ^ Edith Evan Asbury, "For O. Henry, a Hometown Festival", The New York Times, April 13, 1985. Retrieved September 26, 2013.
    
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    ^ "O. Henry: 101 Stories Edited by Ben Yagoda". Library of America. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
    

Further reading[edit]

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  Smith, C. Alphonso (November 1916). "The Strange Case of Sydney Porter and 'O. Henry'". The World's Work: A History of Our Time. XXXIII (1): 54–64. Retrieved February 26, 2019.
  

External links[edit]

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