Q: I have several books by O. Henry that were published during the early years of the last century. Are they valuable, and who can I contact to sell them? — Rosemary, Odessa, Texas A: William Sidney ...

In a literary twist suitable for the master of surprise endings, a lost manuscript by William Sidney Porter, aka O. Henry, has been recovered. The handwritten manuscript, written under the pen name ...

The American writer O. Henry (pen name of William Sydney Porter 1862-1910) is considered a master of short story form with a prolific canon: eleven collections published during his lifetime, six ...

William Sydney Porter — better known by his pen name, O. Henry — was born in North Carolina and died in New York. But his sixteen years in Texas, from 1882 to 1898, made a lasting mark on his life and ...

Last week in this space, we looked at O. Henry, the influential short-story writer who worked briefly for local newspapers and who — as legend has it — borrowed his pen name from a New Orleans ...

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The image of O. Henry on the new "Forever" stamp issued last week by the U.S. Postal Service on the 150th anniversary of his birth shows him dressed up and dreamy in front of a Manhattan cityscape.