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Henry</span></h1> <div id="p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown mw-portlet mw-portlet-lang" > <input type="checkbox" id="p-lang-btn-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox mw-interlanguage-selector" aria-label="Go to an article in another language. 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Henry – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="O. Henry" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ay mw-list-item"><a href="https://ay.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry" title="O. Henry – Aymara" lang="ay" hreflang="ay" data-title="O. Henry" data-language-autonym="Aymar aru" data-language-local-name="Aymara" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aymar aru</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henri" title="O. Henri – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="O. Henri" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88._%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1%DB%8C" title="او. هنری – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="او. هنری" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%93_%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF" title="ও হেনরি – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="ও হেনরি" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E._%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%80%D1%8B" title="О. Генры – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="О. Генры" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E._%D0%93%D1%8D%D0%BD%D1%80%D1%8B" title="О. Гэнры – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="О. Гэнры" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E._%D0%A5%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%80%D0%B8" title="О. Хенри – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="О. Хенри" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry" title="O. Henry – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="O. Henry" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry" title="O. Henry – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="O. Henry" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E._%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%80%D0%B8" title="О. Генри – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="О. Генри" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry" title="O. Henry – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="O. Henry" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry" title="O. Henry – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="O. Henry" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry" title="O. Henry – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="O. Henry" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry" title="O. Henry – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="O. Henry" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry" title="O. Henry – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="O. Henry" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry" title="O. Henry – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="O. Henry" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry" title="O. Henry – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="O. Henry" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88._%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1%DB%8C" title="او. هنری – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="او. هنری" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry" title="O. Henry – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="O. Henry" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%98%A4_%ED%97%A8%EB%A6%AC" title="오 헨리 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="오 헨리" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%95._%D5%80%D5%A5%D5%B6%D6%80%D5%AB" title="Օ. Հենրի – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Օ. Հենրի" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%93._%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80" title="ओ. हेनरी – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="ओ. हेनरी" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry" title="O. Henry – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="O. Henry" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry" title="O. Henry – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="O. Henry" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%95._%D7%94%D7%A0%D7%A8%D7%99" title="או. הנרי – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="או. הנרי" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9D._%E1%83%B0%E1%83%94%E1%83%9C%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98" title="ო. ჰენრი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ო. ჰენრი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E._%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%80%D0%B8" title="О. Генри – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="О. Генри" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%E2%80%99%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%80%D0%B8" title="О’Генри – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="О’Генри" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henrijs" title="O. Henrijs – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="O. Henrijs" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry" title="O. Henry – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="O. Henry" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry" title="O. Henry – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="O. Henry" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%92._%E0%B4%B9%E0%B5%86%E0%B5%BB%E2%80%8C%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%BF" title="ഒ. ഹെൻ‌റി – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ഒ. ഹെൻ‌റി" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%AE_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%B0" title="विल्यम सिडनी पोर्टर – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="विल्यम सिडनी पोर्टर" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%B1_%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%89" title="اوليفر هنرى – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="اوليفر هنرى" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%A1%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF_%E1%80%9F%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA%E1%80%94%E1%80%9B%E1%80%AE" title="အို ဟင်နရီ – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="အို ဟင်နရီ" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry" title="O. Henry – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="O. 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Henry – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="O. Henry" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry" title="O. Henry – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="O. 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Henry" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry" title="O. Henry – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="O. Henry" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rue mw-list-item"><a href="https://rue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E._%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%80%D0%B8" title="О. Генри – Rusyn" lang="rue" hreflang="rue" data-title="О. Генри" data-language-autonym="Русиньскый" data-language-local-name="Rusyn" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русиньскый</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E._%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%80%D0%B8" title="О. Генри – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="О. Генри" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sa mw-list-item"><a href="https://sa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%93_%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80" title="ओ हेन्री – Sanskrit" lang="sa" hreflang="sa" data-title="ओ हेन्री" data-language-autonym="संस्कृतम्" data-language-local-name="Sanskrit" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>संस्कृतम्</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry" title="O. Henry – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="O. Henry" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry" title="O. Henry – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="O. Henry" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry" title="O. Henry – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="O. Henry" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A6%DB%86_%DA%BE%DB%8E%D9%86%D8%B1%DB%8C" title="ئۆ ھێنری – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="ئۆ ھێنری" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry" title="O. Henry – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="O. Henry" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sydney_Porter" title="William Sydney Porter – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="William Sydney Porter" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry" title="O. Henry – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="O. Henry" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%93_%E0%AE%B9%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B1%E0%AE%BF" title="ஓ ஹென்றி – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="ஓ ஹென்றி" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henri" title="O. Henri – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="O. Henri" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Татарча / tatarça</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-te mw-list-item"><a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%93.%E0%B0%B9%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%80" title="ఓ.హెన్రీ – Telugu" lang="te" hreflang="te" data-title="ఓ.హెన్రీ" data-language-autonym="తెలుగు" data-language-local-name="Telugu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>తెలుగు</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry" title="O. Henry – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="O. Henry" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tk mw-list-item"><a href="https://tk.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Genri" title="O'Genri – Turkmen" lang="tk" hreflang="tk" data-title="O'Genri" data-language-autonym="Türkmençe" data-language-local-name="Turkmen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkmençe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E._%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%80%D1%96" title="О. Генрі – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="О. 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Henry</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:William_Sydney_Porter_by_doubleday.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Portrait by W. M. Vanderweyde, 1909"><img alt="Portrait by W. M. Vanderweyde, 1909" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/William_Sydney_Porter_by_doubleday.jpg/220px-William_Sydney_Porter_by_doubleday.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="252" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/William_Sydney_Porter_by_doubleday.jpg/330px-William_Sydney_Porter_by_doubleday.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/William_Sydney_Porter_by_doubleday.jpg/440px-William_Sydney_Porter_by_doubleday.jpg 2x" data-file-width="515" data-file-height="589" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:1.4em;">Portrait by <a href="/wiki/William_van_der_Weyde" title="William van der Weyde">W. M. Vanderweyde</a>, 1909</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Born</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">William Sidney Porter<br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1862-09-11</span>)</span>September 11, 1862<br /><a href="/wiki/Greensboro,_North_Carolina" title="Greensboro, North Carolina">Greensboro, North Carolina</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Died</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">June 5, 1910<span style="display:none">(1910-06-05)</span> (aged 47)<br /><a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Riverside_Cemetery_(Asheville,_North_Carolina)" class="mw-redirect" title="Riverside Cemetery (Asheville, North Carolina)">Riverside Cemetery</a>, Asheville, NC</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Pen name</th><td class="infobox-data nickname" style="line-height:1.4em;">O. Henry, Olivier Henry, Oliver Henry<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role" style="line-height:1.4em;">Writer</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.4em;">Short story</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Athol Estes (1887–1897)<br /> Sarah Coleman (1907–1909)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Children</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">2</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>William Sydney Porter</b> (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910), better known by his pen name <b>O. Henry</b>, was an American writer known primarily for his <a href="/wiki/Short_stories" class="mw-redirect" title="Short stories">short stories</a>, though he also wrote poetry and non-fiction. His works include "<a href="/wiki/The_Gift_of_the_Magi" title="The Gift of the Magi">The Gift of the Magi</a>", "<a href="/wiki/The_Duplicity_of_Hargraves" title="The Duplicity of Hargraves">The Duplicity of Hargraves</a>", and "<a href="/wiki/The_Ransom_of_Red_Chief" title="The Ransom of Red Chief">The Ransom of Red Chief</a>", as well as the novel <i><a href="/wiki/Cabbages_and_Kings_(novel)" title="Cabbages and Kings (novel)">Cabbages and Kings</a></i>. Porter's stories are known for their <a href="/wiki/Naturalism_(literature)" title="Naturalism (literature)">naturalist</a> observations, witty narration, and <a href="/wiki/Surprise_ending" class="mw-redirect" title="Surprise ending">surprise endings</a>. </p><p>Born in <a href="/wiki/Greensboro,_North_Carolina" title="Greensboro, North Carolina">Greensboro, North Carolina</a>, Porter worked at his uncle's pharmacy after finishing school and became a licensed pharmacist at age 19. In March 1882, he moved to Texas, where he initially lived on a ranch, and later settled in Austin, where he met his first wife, Athol Estes. While working as a <a href="/wiki/Drafter" title="Drafter">drafter</a> for the Texas General Land Office, Porter began developing characters for his short stories. He later worked for the First National Bank of Austin, while also publishing a weekly periodical, <i>The Rolling Stone</i>. </p><p>In 1895, he was charged with embezzlement stemming from an audit of the bank. Before the trial, he fled to Honduras, where he began writing <i>Cabbages and Kings</i> (in which he coined the term "<a href="/wiki/Banana_republic" title="Banana republic">banana republic</a>"). Porter surrendered to U.S. authorities when he learned his wife was dying from <a href="/wiki/Tuberculosis" title="Tuberculosis">tuberculosis</a>, and he cared for her until her death in July 1897. He began his five-year prison sentence in March 1898 at the <a href="/wiki/Ohio_Penitentiary" title="Ohio Penitentiary">Ohio Penitentiary</a>, where he served as a night druggist. While imprisoned, Porter published 14 stories under various pseudonyms, one being O. Henry. </p><p>Released from prison early for good behavior, Porter moved to <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh" title="Pittsburgh">Pittsburgh</a> to be with his daughter Margaret before relocating to <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, where he wrote 381 short stories. He married Sarah (Sallie) Lindsey Coleman in 1907; she left him two years later. Porter died on June 5, 1910, after years of deteriorating health. Porter's legacy includes the <a href="/wiki/O._Henry_Award" title="O. Henry Award">O. 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He changed the spelling of his middle 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 April 20, 1858. When William was three, his mother died after giving birth to her third child, and he and his father moved into the home of his paternal grandmother. As a child, Porter was always reading, everything from classics to <a href="/wiki/Dime_novel" title="Dime novel">dime novels</a>; his favorite works were <a href="/wiki/Edward_William_Lane" title="Edward William Lane">Lane</a>'s translation of <i><a href="/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights" title="One Thousand and One Nights">One Thousand and One Nights</a></i> and <a href="/wiki/Robert_Burton" title="Robert Burton">Burton</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Anatomy_of_Melancholy" title="The Anatomy of Melancholy">The Anatomy of Melancholy</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-eb_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eb-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Porter graduated from his aunt Evelina Maria Porter's elementary school in 1876. He then enrolled at the Lindsey Street High School. His aunt continued to tutor him until he was 15. In 1879, he started working in his uncle's drugstore in Greensboro, and on August 30, 1881, at the age of 19, Porter was licensed as a pharmacist. At the drugstore, he also showed his natural artistic talents by sketching the townsfolk. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Life_in_Texas">Life in Texas</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=O._Henry&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Life in Texas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:William_Sydney_Porter_as_young_man_in_Austin.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/William_Sydney_Porter_as_young_man_in_Austin.jpg/220px-William_Sydney_Porter_as_young_man_in_Austin.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="297" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/William_Sydney_Porter_as_young_man_in_Austin.jpg/330px-William_Sydney_Porter_as_young_man_in_Austin.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/William_Sydney_Porter_as_young_man_in_Austin.jpg/440px-William_Sydney_Porter_as_young_man_in_Austin.jpg 2x" data-file-width="497" data-file-height="670" /></a><figcaption>Porter as a young man in Austin</figcaption></figure> <p>Porter traveled along with James K. 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 <a href="/wiki/La_Salle_County,_Texas" title="La Salle County, Texas">La Salle County</a> and helped out as a shepherd, ranch hand, cook, and baby-sitter. While on the ranch, he learned bits of Spanish and German from the mix of indigenous and immigrant ranch hands. He also spent time reading classic works of literature. </p><p>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 Company as a pharmacist. Porter then moved on to work for the Harrell Cigar Store located in the <a href="/wiki/Driskill_Hotel" title="Driskill Hotel">Driskill Hotel</a>. He also began writing as a sideline and wrote many of his early stories in the Harrell house. </p><p>As a young bachelor, Porter led an active social life in Austin. He was known for his wit, story-telling, and musical talents. He played both the <a href="/wiki/Guitar" title="Guitar">guitar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mandolin" title="Mandolin">mandolin</a>. He sang in the choir at <a href="/wiki/St._David%27s_Episcopal_Church_(Austin,_Texas)" title="St. David's Episcopal Church (Austin, Texas)">St. David's Episcopal Church</a> and became a member of the "Hill City Quartette", a group of young men who sang at gatherings and serenaded young women of the town. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ohenry_family_1890s.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Ohenry_family_1890s.jpg/220px-Ohenry_family_1890s.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="277" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Ohenry_family_1890s.jpg/330px-Ohenry_family_1890s.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Ohenry_family_1890s.jpg 2x" data-file-width="397" data-file-height="500" /></a><figcaption> The Porter family, early 1890s – Athol, daughter Margaret, William</figcaption></figure> <p>Porter met and began <a href="/wiki/Courtship" title="Courtship">courting</a> Athol Estes, 17 years old and from a wealthy family. Historians believe Porter met Athol at the laying of the cornerstone of the <a href="/wiki/Texas_State_Capitol" title="Texas State Capitol">Texas State Capitol</a> on March 2, 1885. Her mother objected to the match because Athol was ill, suffering from <a href="/wiki/Tuberculosis" title="Tuberculosis">tuberculosis</a>. On July 1, 1887, Porter eloped with Athol and they were married in the parlor of the home of the Reverend R. K. Smoot, pastor of the <a href="/wiki/Central_Presbyterian_Church_(Austin,_Texas)" title="Central Presbyterian Church (Austin, Texas)">Central Presbyterian Church</a>, 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 a daughter Margaret Worth Porter in September 1889. </p><p>Porter's friend Richard Hall became Texas Land Commissioner and offered Porter a job. Porter started as a <a href="/wiki/Draftsman" class="mw-redirect" title="Draftsman">draftsman</a> at the Texas General Land Office (GLO) on January 12, 1887, at a salary of $100 a month, drawing maps from surveys and field notes. The salary was enough to support his family, but he continued his contributions to magazines and newspapers. In the <a href="/wiki/General_Land_Office_Building_(Austin,_Texas)" title="General Land Office Building (Austin, Texas)">GLO building</a>, he began developing characters and plots for such stories as "Georgia's Ruling" (1900), and "Buried Treasure" (1908). The castle-like building he worked in was woven into some of his tales such as "Bexar Scrip No. 2692" (1894). His job at the GLO was a political appointment by Hall. Hall ran for governor in the election of 1890 but lost. Porter resigned on January 21, 1891, the day after the new governor, <a href="/wiki/Jim_Hogg" title="Jim Hogg">Jim Hogg</a>, was sworn in. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:O._Henry_in_the_tellers_cage.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/O._Henry_in_the_tellers_cage.jpg/220px-O._Henry_in_the_tellers_cage.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="238" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/O._Henry_in_the_tellers_cage.jpg/330px-O._Henry_in_the_tellers_cage.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/O._Henry_in_the_tellers_cage.jpg 2x" data-file-width="401" data-file-height="434" /></a><figcaption>Porter as a clerk at the First National Bank in Austin, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1892</span></figcaption></figure> <p>The same year, Porter began working at the First National Bank of Austin as a teller and bookkeeper at the same salary he had made at the GLO. The bank was operated informally, and Porter was apparently careless in keeping his books and may have <a href="/wiki/Embezzlement" title="Embezzlement">embezzled</a> funds. In 1894, he was accused by the bank of embezzlement and lost his job but was not indicted at the time. </p><p>He then worked full-time on his humorous weekly called <i>The Rolling Stone</i>, which he started while working at the bank. <i>The Rolling Stone</i> featured satire on life, people, and politics and included Porter's short stories and sketches. Although eventually reaching a top circulation of 1,500, <i>The Rolling Stone</i> failed in April 1895 because the paper never provided an adequate income. However, his writing and drawings had caught the attention of the editor at the <i><a href="/wiki/Houston_Post" title="Houston Post">Houston Post</a></i>. </p><p>Porter and his family moved to Houston in 1895, where he started writing for the <i>Post</i>. His salary was only $25 a month, but it rose steadily as his popularity increased. Porter gathered ideas for his column by loitering in hotel lobbies and observing and talking to people there. This was a technique he used throughout his writing career. </p><p>While he was in Houston, federal auditors audited the First National Bank of Austin and found the embezzlement shortages that led to his firing. A federal indictment followed, and he was arrested on charges of embezzlement. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Flight_and_return">Flight and return</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=O._Henry&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Flight and return"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:William_Sydney_Porter.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/William_Sydney_Porter.jpg/220px-William_Sydney_Porter.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="312" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/William_Sydney_Porter.jpg/330px-William_Sydney_Porter.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/William_Sydney_Porter.jpg/440px-William_Sydney_Porter.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1831" data-file-height="2593" /></a><figcaption>Porter in his thirties</figcaption></figure> <p>After his arrest, Porter's father-in-law posted his bail. He was due to stand trial on July 7, 1896, but the day before, as he was changing trains to get to the courthouse, he got scared. He fled, first to New Orleans and later to Honduras, with which the United States had no extradition treaty at that time. Porter lived in Honduras for six months, until January 1897. There he became friends with <a href="/wiki/Al_Jennings" title="Al Jennings">Al Jennings</a>, a notorious train robber, who later wrote a book about their friendship.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He holed up in a <a href="/wiki/Trujillo,_Honduras" title="Trujillo, Honduras">Trujillo</a> hotel, where he wrote <i><a href="/wiki/Cabbages_and_Kings_(novel)" title="Cabbages and Kings (novel)">Cabbages and Kings</a></i>, which notably coined the term "<a href="/wiki/Banana_republic" title="Banana republic">banana republic</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Porter had sent Athol and Margaret back to Austin to live with Athol's parents. Unfortunately, Athol became too ill to meet Porter in Honduras as he had planned. When he learned that his wife 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. </p><p>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 five years in prison and imprisoned on March 25, 1898, at the <a href="/wiki/Ohio_Penitentiary" title="Ohio Penitentiary">Ohio Penitentiary</a> in Columbus, Ohio. Porter was a licensed pharmacist and was able to work in the prison hospital as the night druggist. He was given his own room in the hospital wing, and there is no record that he actually spent time in the cell block of the prison. He had 14 stories published under various pseudonyms while he was in prison but was becoming best known as "O. Henry", a pseudonym that first appeared over the story "Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking" in the December 1899 issue of <i><a href="/wiki/McClure%27s_Magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="McClure's Magazine">McClure's Magazine</a></i>. A friend of his in New Orleans would forward his stories to publishers so that they had no idea that the writer was imprisoned. </p><p>Porter was released on July 24, 1901, for good behavior after serving three years. He reunited with his daughter Margaret, now age 11, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where Athol's parents had moved after Porter's conviction. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Later_life">Later life</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=O._Henry&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Later life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Porter's most prolific writing period 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 <i>New York World Sunday Magazine</i>. His wit, characterization, and plot twists were adored by his readers but often panned by critics. </p><p>Porter married again in 1907 to childhood sweetheart Sarah (Sallie) Lindsey Coleman, whom he met again after revisiting his native state of North Carolina. Coleman was herself a writer and wrote a romanticized and fictionalized version of their correspondence and courtship in her novella <i>Wind of Destiny</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Death">Death</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=O._Henry&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Porter was a heavy drinker, and by 1908, his markedly deteriorating health affected his writing. In 1909, Sarah left him, and he died on June 5, 1910, of <a href="/wiki/Cirrhosis_of_the_liver" class="mw-redirect" title="Cirrhosis of the liver">cirrhosis of the liver</a>, complications of <a href="/wiki/Diabetes" title="Diabetes">diabetes</a>, and an <a href="/wiki/Enlarged_heart" class="mw-redirect" title="Enlarged heart">enlarged heart</a>. According to one account, he died of cerebral hemorrhage.<sup id="cite_ref-Brown_1967_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brown_1967-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After funeral services in New York City, he was buried in the <a href="/wiki/Riverside_Cemetery_(Asheville,_North_Carolina)" class="mw-redirect" title="Riverside Cemetery (Asheville, North Carolina)">Riverside Cemetery</a> in <a href="/wiki/Asheville,_North_Carolina" title="Asheville, North Carolina">Asheville, North Carolina</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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 later. She died of tuberculosis in 1927 and was buried next to her father. </p><p>According to the cemetery, as of 2023, people have been leaving $1.87 in change (the amount of Della's savings at the beginning of "<a href="/wiki/The_Gift_of_the_Magi" title="The Gift of the Magi">The Gift of the Magi</a>") on Porter's grave for at least 30 years. The cemetery says the money is given to area libraries.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Stories">Stories</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=O._Henry&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Stories"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:William_Sydney_Porter,_Wiafs_and_Strays_frontispiece.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/William_Sydney_Porter%2C_Wiafs_and_Strays_frontispiece.jpg/200px-William_Sydney_Porter%2C_Wiafs_and_Strays_frontispiece.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="323" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/William_Sydney_Porter%2C_Wiafs_and_Strays_frontispiece.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="251" data-file-height="405" /></a><figcaption>Portrait used as frontispiece in <i><a href="/wiki/Waifs_and_Strays" title="Waifs and Strays">Waifs and Strays</a></i> (posthumous, 1917) </figcaption></figure> <p>Most of Porter's stories are set in his own time, the early 20th century. He had an obvious affection for New York City, which he called "Bagdad-on-the-Subway",<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and many of his stories are set there, while others are set in small towns or in other cities. They frequently feature <a href="/wiki/Working_class" title="Working class">working class</a> characters, such as policemen and waitresses, as well as criminals and social outcasts. In his day he was called the American answer to French <a href="/wiki/Naturalism_(literature)" title="Naturalism (literature)">naturalist</a> <a href="/wiki/Guy_de_Maupassant" title="Guy de Maupassant">Guy de Maupassant</a>, whose work was similarly concerned with the struggles of common people and often had twist endings. </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Cabbages_and_Kings_(novel)" title="Cabbages and Kings (novel)">Cabbages and Kings</a></i> was his first collection of stories, followed by <i><a href="/wiki/The_Four_Million" title="The Four Million">The Four Million</a></i>. The second collection opens with a reference to <a href="/wiki/Ward_McAllister" title="Ward McAllister">Ward McAllister</a>'s claim 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." </p><p>His final work was "Dream", a short story intended for the magazine <i>The Cosmopolitan</i>. It was never completed.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Among his most famous stories are: </p> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Gift_of_the_Magi" title="The Gift of the Magi">The Gift of the Magi</a>" is about a young couple, Jim and Della, who are short of money but desperately want to buy each other Christmas gifts. Unbeknownst to Jim, Della sells her most valuable possession, her beautiful hair, in order to buy a platinum fob chain for Jim's watch; while unbeknownst to Della, Jim sells his own most valuable possession, his watch, to buy jeweled combs for Della's hair. The essential premise of this story has been copied, re-worked, parodied, and otherwise re-told countless times in the century since it was written.</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Ransom_of_Red_Chief" title="The Ransom of Red Chief">The Ransom of Red Chief</a>" in which two men kidnap a boy of ten years old to ransom him. The boy turns out to be so spoiled and obnoxious that the desperate men ultimately pay the boy's father $250 to take him back.</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Cop_and_the_Anthem" title="The Cop and the Anthem">The Cop and the Anthem</a>" about a New York City hobo named Soapy who sets out to get arrested so that he can be a guest of the city jail instead of sleeping out in the cold winter. Despite his best efforts at committing petty theft, vandalism, disorderly conduct, and "flirting" with a young prostitute, Soapy fails to draw the attention of the police. Dejected, he stops in front of a church, where an organ anthem inspires him to clean up his life; however, he is charged with <a href="/wiki/Loitering" title="Loitering">loitering</a>, and sentenced to three months in prison.</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/A_Retrieved_Reformation" title="A Retrieved Reformation">A Retrieved Reformation</a>" tells the tale of safecracker Jimmy Valentine, a man recently freed from prison. He goes to a town bank to case it before he robs it. As he walks to the door, he catches the eye of the banker's beautiful daughter. They immediately fall in love and Valentine decides to give up his criminal career. He moves into the town, taking up the identity of Ralph Spencer, a shoemaker. Just as he is about to leave to deliver his specialized tools to an old 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 it will seal his fate, Valentine opens the safe to rescue the child. However, much to Valentine's surprise, the lawman denies recognizing him and lets him go.</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Duplicity_of_Hargraves" title="The Duplicity of Hargraves">The Duplicity of Hargraves</a>" tells the story of the Talbots, a father and daughter from the Old South, newly poor after the Civil War, who move to Washington, DC. An actor, Hargraves, offers Mr. Talbot money, which he is too proud to accept. But when Talbot is approached by an old man, a former slave who gives him money to settle an old family debt, he accepts it. It is later revealed that Hargraves secretly portrayed the slave.</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Cisco_Kid" title="The Cisco Kid">The Caballero's Way</a>" in which Porter's most famous character, the Cisco Kid, is introduced. It was first published in 1907 in the July issue of <i>Everybody's Magazine</i> and collected in the book <i>Heart of the West</i> that same year. In later film and TV depictions, the Kid would be portrayed as a dashing adventurer, perhaps skirting the edges of the law, but primarily on the side of the angels. In the original short story, the only story by Porter to feature the character, the Kid is a murderous, ruthless border desperado, whose trail is dogged by a heroic Texas Ranger.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Pen_name">Pen name</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=O._Henry&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Pen name"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Porter used a number of pen names (including "O. Henry" or "Olivier Henry") in the early part of his writing career; other names included S.H. Peters, James L. Bliss, T.B. Dowd, and Howard Clark.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nevertheless, the name "O. Henry" seemed to garner the most attention from editors and the public, and was used exclusively by Porter for his writing by about 1902. He gave various explanations for the origin of his pen name.<sup id="cite_ref-Davenport_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Davenport-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1909, he gave an interview to <i>The New York Times</i>, in which he gave an account of it: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>It was during these New Orleans days that I adopted my pen name of O. Henry. I said to a friend: "I'm going to send out some stuff. I don't know if it amounts to much, so I want to get a literary alias. Help me pick out a good one." He suggested that we get a newspaper and pick a name from the first list of notables that we found in it. In the society columns we found the account of a fashionable ball. "Here we have our notables," said he. We looked down the list and my eye lighted on the name Henry, "That'll do for a last name," said I. "Now for a first name. I want something short. None of your three-syllable names for me." "Why don't you use a plain initial letter, then?" asked my friend. "Good," said I, "O is about the easiest letter written, and O it is." </p><p>A newspaper once 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 paper under the name Olivier Henry.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p><a href="/wiki/William_Trevor" title="William Trevor">William Trevor</a> writes in the introduction to <i>The World of O. Henry: Roads of Destiny and Other Stories</i> (Hodder & Stoughton, 1973) that "there was a prison guard named Orrin Henry" in the Ohio State Penitentiary "whom William Sydney Porter ... immortalised as O. Henry". </p><p>According to J. F. Clarke, it is from the name of the French pharmacist Etienne Ossian Henry, whose name is in the <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=U.S._Dispensary&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="U.S. Dispensary (page does not exist)">U.S. Dispensary</a></i> which Porter used working in the prison pharmacy.<sup id="cite_ref-Clarke_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Clarke-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Writer and scholar <a href="/wiki/Guy_Davenport" title="Guy Davenport">Guy Davenport</a> offers his own hypothesis: "The pseudonym that he began to write under in prison is constructed from the first two letters of <i>Ohio</i> and the second and last two of <i>penitentiary</i>."<sup id="cite_ref-Davenport_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Davenport-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=O._Henry&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/O._Henry_Award" title="O. Henry Award">O. Henry Award</a> is an annual prize named after Porter and given to outstanding short stories. </p><p>A film was made in 1952 featuring five stories, called <i><a href="/wiki/O._Henry%27s_Full_House" title="O. Henry's Full House">O. Henry's Full House</a></i>. The episode garnering the most critical acclaim<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was "<a href="/wiki/The_Cop_and_the_Anthem" title="The Cop and the Anthem">The Cop and the Anthem</a>" starring <a href="/wiki/Charles_Laughton" title="Charles Laughton">Charles Laughton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe" title="Marilyn Monroe">Marilyn Monroe</a>. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "<a href="/wiki/The_Last_Leaf" title="The Last Leaf">The Last Leaf</a>", "<a href="/wiki/The_Ransom_of_Red_Chief" title="The Ransom of Red Chief">The Ransom of Red Chief</a>", and "<a href="/wiki/The_Gift_of_the_Magi" title="The Gift of the Magi">The Gift of the Magi</a>". </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Strictly_Business_(1962_film)" title="Strictly Business (1962 film)">Strictly Business</a></i> is a 1962 Soviet comedy film, directed by <a href="/wiki/Leonid_Gaidai" title="Leonid Gaidai">Leonid Gaidai</a>, based on three short stories by O. Henry: "The Roads We Take", "<a href="/wiki/Makes_the_Whole_World_Kin" title="Makes the Whole World Kin">Makes the Whole World Kin</a>", and "<a href="/wiki/The_Ransom_of_Red_Chief" title="The Ransom of Red Chief">The Ransom of Red Chief</a>". The premiere of the film was timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the birth of the writer. Henry was particularly popular in Russia in the 1920s, and was described by the critic Deming Brown in 1953 as "remain[ing] a minor classic in Russia".<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1962, the Soviet Postal Service issued a stamp commemorating O. Henry's 100th birthday. </p><p>A 1957 television series, <i><a href="/wiki/The_O._Henry_Playhouse" title="The O. Henry Playhouse">The O. Henry Playhouse</a></i>, was syndicated in 39 episodes to 188 markets.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Actor <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Mitchell_(actor)" title="Thomas Mitchell (actor)">Thomas Mitchell</a> portrayed O. Henry in each episode as he interacted with his characters or related his latest story to his publisher or a friend.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 1986 Indian anthology television series <i><a href="/wiki/Katha_Sagar" title="Katha Sagar">Katha Sagar</a></i> adapted several of Henry's short stories as episodes including "<a href="/wiki/The_Last_Leaf" title="The Last Leaf">The Last Leaf</a>". </p><p>An opera in one long act, <i>The Furnished Room</i>, with music by <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Steven_Crafts" title="Daniel Steven Crafts">Daniel Steven Crafts</a> and libretto by Richard Kuss, is based on O. Henry's story of the same name. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/O._Henry_House" title="O. Henry House">O. Henry House</a> and <a href="/wiki/O._Henry_Hall" title="O. Henry Hall">O. Henry Hall</a>, both in Austin, Texas, are named for him. O. Henry Hall, now owned by the <a href="/wiki/Texas_State_University_System" title="Texas State University System">Texas State University System</a>, previously served as the federal courthouse in which O. Henry was convicted of embezzlement. The O. Henry House has been the site of the <a href="/wiki/O._Henry_Pun-Off" title="O. Henry Pun-Off">O. Henry Pun-Off</a>, an annual spoken word competition inspired by Porter's love of language, since 1978. (<a href="/wiki/Samuel_E._Gideon" title="Samuel E. Gideon">Dr. Samuel E. Gideon</a>, a historical architect and professor at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Texas_at_Austin" title="University of Texas at Austin">University of Texas at Austin</a>, was a strong advocate for the saving of the O. Henry House in Austin.) </p><p>Several schools are named for Porter: William Sydney Porter Elementary in <a href="/wiki/Greensboro,_North_Carolina" title="Greensboro, North Carolina">Greensboro, North Carolina</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Named_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Named-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> O. Henry Elementary in <a href="/wiki/Garland,_Texas" title="Garland, Texas">Garland, Texas</a>, the O. Henry School (I.S. 70) in New York City,<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and O. Henry Middle School in Austin, Texas.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/O._Henry_Hotel" title="O. Henry Hotel">O. Henry Hotel</a> in Greensboro is also named for Porter, as is <a href="/wiki/US_29" class="mw-redirect" title="US 29">US 29</a>, which is O. Henry Boulevard. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Asheville,_North_Carolina" title="Asheville, North Carolina">Asheville, North Carolina</a>, where Porter is buried, has O. Henry Avenue, the location of the <i><a href="/wiki/Asheville_Citizen-Times" title="Asheville Citizen-Times">Asheville Citizen-Times</a></i> building.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On September 11, 2012, the United States Postal Service issued a stamp commemorating the 150th anniversary of O. Henry's birth.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On November 23, 2011, <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> quoted O. Henry while granting pardons to two turkeys named "Liberty" and "Peace".<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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. Postal Service issued its O. Henry stamp.<sup id="cite_ref-Schlosser_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schlosser-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Previous attempts were made to obtain such a pardon for Porter in the administrations of <a href="/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson" title="Woodrow Wilson">Woodrow Wilson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dwight_Eisenhower" class="mw-redirect" title="Dwight Eisenhower">Dwight Eisenhower</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but no one had ever bothered to file a formal application.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ruckman and Henson argued that Porter deserved a pardon because (1) he was a law-abiding citizen prior to his conviction; (2) his offense was minor; (3) 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 applied for pardon; (6) by today's standards, he remains an excellent candidate for clemency; and (7) his pardon would be a well-deserved symbolic gesture and more.<sup id="cite_ref-Schlosser_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schlosser-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The pardon remains ungranted. </p><p>In 2021 the <a href="/wiki/Library_of_America" title="Library of America">Library of America</a> included O. Henry in their list by publishing a collection of 101 of his stories, edited by <a href="/wiki/Ben_Yagoda" title="Ben Yagoda">Ben Yagoda</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=O._Henry&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Stories_2">Stories</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=O._Henry&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Stories"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Collections: </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Cabbages_and_Kings_(novel)" title="Cabbages and Kings (novel)">Cabbages and Kings</a></i> (1904), novel consisting of linked stories. Collection of 19 short stories: <dl><dd>"The Proem: By the Carpenter", "<span style="padding-left:0.15em;">'</span>Fox-in-the-Morning<span style="padding-right:0.15em;">'</span>", "The Lotus and the Bottle", "Smith", "Caught", "Cupid's Exile Number Two", "The Phonograph and the Graft", "Money 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"</dd></dl></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Four_Million" title="The Four Million">The Four Million</a></i> (1906), collection of 25 short stories: <dl><dd>"Tobin's Palm", "<a href="/wiki/The_Gift_of_the_Magi" title="The Gift of the Magi">The Gift of the Magi</a>", "A Cosmopolite in a Cafe", "Between Rounds", "<a href="/wiki/The_Skylight_Room" title="The Skylight Room">The Skylight Room</a>", "A Service of Love", "The Coming-Out of Maggie", "Man About Town", "<a href="/wiki/The_Cop_and_the_Anthem" title="The Cop and the Anthem">The Cop and the Anthem</a>", "An Adjustment of Nature", "Memoirs of a Yellow Dog", "The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein", "Mammon and the Archer", "Springtime à la Carte", "The Green Door", "From the Cabby's Seat", "An Unfinished Story", "The Caliph, Cupid and the Clock", "Sisters of the Golden Circle", "The Romance of a Busy Broker", "<a href="/wiki/After_Twenty_Years" title="After Twenty Years">After Twenty Years</a>", "Lost on Dress Parade", "By Courier", "The Furnished Room", "The Brief Debut of Tildy"</dd></dl></li> <li><i>The Trimmed Lamp</i> (1907), collection of 25 short stories: <dl><dd>"The Trimmed Lamp", "A Madison Square Arabian Night", "The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball", "The Pendulum", "Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen", "The Assessor of Success", "The Buyer from Cactus City", "The Badge of Policeman O'Roon", "Brickdust Row" (made into the 1918 film, <i><a href="/wiki/Everybody%27s_Girl_(film)" title="Everybody's Girl (film)">Everybody's Girl</a></i>), "The Making of a New Yorker", "Vanity and Some Sables", "The Social Triangle", "The Purple Dress", "The Foreign Policy of Company 99", "The Lost Blend", "A Harlem Tragedy", "<span style="padding-left:0.15em;">'</span>The Guilty Party<span style="padding-right:0.15em;">'</span>", "A Midsummer Knight's Dream", "According to Their Lights", "<a href="/wiki/The_Last_Leaf" title="The Last Leaf">The Last Leaf</a>", "The Count and the Wedding Guest", "The Country of Elusion", "The Ferry of Unfulfilment", "The Tale of a Tainted Tenner", "Elsie in New York"</dd></dl></li> <li><i>Heart of the West</i> (1907), collection of 19 short stories: <dl><dd>"Hearts and Crosses", "The Ransom of Mack", "Telemachus, Friend", "The Handbook of Hymen", "The Pimienta Pancakes", "Seats of the Haughty", "Hygeia at the Solito", "An Afternoon Miracle", "The Higher Abdication", "Cupid à la Carte", "<a href="/wiki/Cisco_Kid#"The_Caballero's_Way"_(short_story)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cisco Kid">The Caballero's Way</a>", "The Sphinx Apple", "The Missing Chord", "A Call Loan", "The Princess and the Puma", "The Indian Summer of Dry Valley Johnson", "Christmas by Injunction", "A Chaparral Prince", "The Reformation of Calliope"</dd></dl></li> <li><i>The Gentle Grafter</i> (1908), collection of 14 short stories: <dl><dd>"The Octopus Marooned", "Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet", "Modern Rural Sports", "The Chair of Philanthromathematics", "The Hand That Riles the World", "The Exact Science of Matrimony", "A Midsummer Masquerade", "Shearing the Wolf", "Innocents of Broadway", "<a href="/wiki/Conscience_in_Art" title="Conscience in Art">Conscience in Art</a>", "The Man Higher Up", "Tempered Wind", "Hostages to Momus", "The Ethics of Pig"</dd></dl></li> <li><i>The Voice of the City</i> (1908), collection of 25 short stories: <dl><dd>"The Voice of the City", "The Complete Life of John Hopkins", "<a href="/wiki/A_Lickpenny_Lover" title="A Lickpenny Lover">A Lickpenny Lover</a>", "Dougherty's Eye-opener", "<span style="padding-left:0.15em;">'</span>Little Speck in Garnered Fruit<span style="padding-right:0.15em;">'</span>", "The Harbinger", "While the Auto Waits", "A Comedy in Rubber", "<a href="/wiki/One_Thousand_Dollars" title="One Thousand Dollars">One Thousand Dollars</a>", "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 Clarion Call", "Extradited from Bohemia", "A Philistine in Bohemia", "From Each According to His Ability", "The Memento"</dd></dl></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Roads_of_Destiny_(short_story_collection)" title="Roads of Destiny (short story collection)">Roads of Destiny</a></i> (1909), collection of 22 short stories: <dl><dd>"Roads of Destiny", "The Guardian of the Accolade", "The Discounters of Money", "The Enchanted Profile", "Next to Reading Matter", "Art and the Bronco", "Phoebe", "A Double-dyed Deceiver", "The Passing of Black Eagle", "<a href="/wiki/A_Retrieved_Reformation" title="A Retrieved Reformation">A Retrieved Reformation</a>", "Cherchez la Femme", "Friends in San Rosario", "The Fourth in Salvador", "The Emancipation of Billy", "The Enchanted Kiss", "A Departmental Case", "The Renaissance at Charleroi", "On Behalf of the Management", "Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking", "The Halberdier of the Little Rheinschloss", "Two Renegades", "The Lonesome Road"</dd></dl></li> <li><i>Options</i> (1909), collection of 16 short stories: <dl><dd>"<span style="padding-left:0.15em;">'</span>The Rose of Dixie<span style="padding-right:0.15em;">'</span>", "<a href="/wiki/The_Third_Ingredient" title="The Third Ingredient">The Third Ingredient</a>", "The Hiding of Black Bill", "Schools and Schools", "Thimble, Thimble", "Supply and Demand", "Buried Treasure", "To Him Who Waits", "He Also Serves", "The Moment of Victory", "The Head-hunter", "No Story", "The Higher Pragmatism", "Best-seller", "Rus in Urbe", "A Poor Rule"</dd></dl></li> <li><i>The Two Women</i> (1910), collection of 2 short stories: <dl><dd>"A Fog in Santone", "Blind Man's Holiday"</dd></dl></li> <li><i>Strictly Business</i> (1910), collection of 23 short stories: <dl><dd>"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 Thing's the Play", "A Ramble in Aphasia", "A Municipal Report", "Psyche and the Pskyscraper", "A Bird of Bagdad", "Compliments of the Season", "A Night in New Arabia", "The Girl and the Habit", "Proof of the Pudding", "Past One at Rooney's", "The Venturers", "The Duel", "<span style="padding-left:0.15em;">'</span>What You Want<span style="padding-right:0.15em;">'</span>"</dd></dl></li> <li><i>Whirligigs</i> (1910), collection of 24 short stories: <dl><dd>"The World and the Door", "The Theory and the Hound", "The Hypotheses of Failure", "Calloway's Code", "A Matter of Mean Elevation", "Girl", "Sociology in Serge and Straw", "<a href="/wiki/The_Ransom_of_Red_Chief" title="The Ransom of Red Chief">The Ransom of Red Chief</a>", "The Marry Month of May", "A Technical Error", "Suite Homes and Their Romance", "The Whirligig of Life", "A Sacrifice Hit", "<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Roads_We_Take&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Roads We Take (page does not exist)">The Roads We Take</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8,_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%B5_%D0%BC%D1%8B_%D0%B2%D1%8B%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B5%D0%BC" class="extiw" title="ru:Дороги, которые мы выбираем">ru</a>]</span>", "A Blackjack Bargainer", "The Song and the Sergeant", "One Dollar's Worth", "A Newspaper Story", "Tommy's Burglar", "A Chaparral Christmas Gift", "A Little Local Colour", "Georgia's Ruling", "Blind Man's Holiday", "Madame Bo-Peep of the Ranches"</dd></dl></li> <li><i>Sixes and Sevens</i> (1911), collection of 25 short stories: <dl><dd>"The Last of the Troubadours", "The Sleuths", "Witches' Loaves", "The Pride of the Cities", "Holding Up a Train", "Ulysses and the Dogman", "The Champion of the Weather", "<a href="/wiki/Makes_the_Whole_World_Kin" title="Makes the Whole World Kin">Makes the Whole World Kin</a>", "At Arms with Morpheus", "A Ghost of a Chance", "Jimmy Hayes and Muriel", "The Door of Unrest", "<a href="/wiki/The_Duplicity_of_Hargraves" title="The Duplicity of Hargraves">The Duplicity of Hargraves</a>", "Let Me Feel Your Pulse", "October and June", "The Church with an Overshot-Wheel", "New York by Camp Fire Light", "The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes", "The Lady Higher Up", "The Greater Coney", "Law and Order", "Transformation of Martin Burney", "The Caliph and the Cad", "The Diamond of Kali", "The Day We Celebrate"</dd></dl></li> <li><i>Rolling Stones</i> (1912), collection of <dl><dd>23 short stories: "The Dream", "A Ruler of Men", "The Atavism of John Tom Little Bear", "Helping the Other Fellow", "The Marionettes", "The Marquis and Miss Sally", "A Fog in Santone", "The Friendly Call", "A Dinner at ———", "Sound 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's Curse", "Bexar Scrip No. 2692.", "Queries and Answers"</dd> <dd>12 poems: <dl><dd>"The Pewee", "Nothing to say", "The Murderer"</dd> <dd>Some Postscripts: "Two Portraits", "A Contribution", "The Old Farm", "Vanity", "The Lullaby Boy", "Chanson de Bohême", "Hard to Forget", "Drop a Tear in This Slot", "Tamales"</dd></dl></dd> <dd>letters: "Some Letters"</dd></dl></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Waifs_and_Strays" title="Waifs and Strays">Waifs and Strays</a></i> (1917), collection of 12 short stories: <dl><dd>"The Red Roses of Tonia", "Round The Circle", "The Rubber Plant's Story", "Out of Nazareth", "Confessions of a Humorist", "The Sparrows in Madison Square", "Hearts and Hands", "The Cactus", "The Detective Detector", "The Dog and the Playlet", "A Little Talk About Mobs", "The Snow Man"</dd></dl></li> <li><i>O. Henryana</i> (1920), collection of 7 short stories: <dl><dd>"The Crucible", "A Lunar Episode", "Three Paragraphs", "Bulger's Friend", "A Professional Secret", "The Elusive Tenderloin", "The Struggle of the Outliers"</dd></dl></li> <li><i>Postscripts</i> (1923), collection of 103 short stories, 26 poems and 4 articles: <dl><dd>"The Sensitive Colonel Jay", "Taking No Chances", "A Matter of Loyalty", "The Other Side of It", "Journalistically Impossible", "The Power of Reputation", "The Distraction of Grief", "A Sporting Interest", "Had A Use for It", "The Old Landmark", "A Personal Insult", "Toddlekins" (poem), "Reconciliation", "Buying a Piano", "Too Late", "Nothing to say" (poem), "<span style="padding-left:0.15em;">'</span>Goin Home fur Christmas<span style="padding-right:0.15em;">'</span>" (poem), "Just a Little Damp", "Her Mysterious Charm", "Convinced", "His Dilemma", "Something for Baby" (poem), "Some Day", "A Green Hand", "A Righteous Outburst", "Getting at the Facts", "Just for a Change" (poem), "Too Wise", "A Fatal Error", "Prompt" (poem), "An Opportunity Declined", "Correcting a Great Injustice", "A Startling Demonstration", "Leap Year Advice" (article), "After Supper", "His Only Opportunity", "Getting Acquainted", "Answers to Inquiries" (article), "City Peril", "Hush Money", "Relieved", "No Time to Lose", "A Villainous Trick", "A Forced March" (poem), "Book Review" (article), "A Conditional 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 Culture", "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 Good Story Spoiled", "Revenge", "No Help for It", "Riley's Luck" (poem), "Not So Much a Tam Fool", "A Guess-Proof Mystery Story", "Futility" (poem), "Wounded Veteran", "Her Ruse", "Why Conductors Are Morose", "The Pewee" (poem), "<span style="padding-left:0.15em;">'</span>Only to Lie-<span style="padding-right:0.15em;">'</span>" (poem), "The Sunday Excursionist", "Decoration Day", "Charge of the White Brigade" (poem), "An Inspiration", "Coming To Him", "His Pension", "Winner", "Hungry Henry's Ruse", "A Proof Of Love" (poem), "One Consolation", "An Unsuccessful Experiment", "Superlatrives" (poem), "By Easy Stages", "Even Worse", "The Shock", "The Cynic", "Speaking of Big Winds", "An Original Idea", "Calculations", "A Valedictory", "Solemn Thoughts", "Explaining It", "Her Failing", "A Disagreement", "An E for a Knee" (poem), "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 It Started", "How Red Conlin Told the Widow", "Why He Hesitated", "Turkish Questions" (poem), "Somebody Lied", "Marvelous", "The Confession of a Murderer", "Get Off the Earth" (poem), "The Stranger's Appeal", "The Good Boy", "The Colonel's Romance", "A Narrow Escape", "A Year's Supply", "Eugene Field" (poem), "Slightly Mixed", "Knew What Was Needed", "Some Ancient News Notes" (article), "A Sure Method"</dd></dl></li> <li><i>O. Henry Encore</i> (1939), collection of 27 short stories, 7 sketches and 10 poems: <ol><li>Part one. Stories: "A Night Errant", "In Mezzotint", "The Dissipated Jeweller", "How Willie Saved Father", "The Mirage on the Frio", "Sufficient Provocation", "The Bruised Reed", "Paderewski's Hair", "A Mystery of Many Centuries", "A Strange Case", "Simmons' Saturday Night", "An Unknown Romance", "Jack the Giant Killer", "The Pint Flask", "An Odd Character", "A Houston Romance", "The Legend of San Jacinto", "Binkley's Practical School of Journalism", "A New Microbe", "Vereton Villa", "Whisky Did It", "Nothing New Under the Sun", "Led Astray", "A Story for Men", "How She Got in the Swim", "The Barber Talks", "Barber Shop Adventure"</li> <li>Part two. Sketches: "Did You See the Circus", "Thanksgiving Remarks", "When the Train Comes in", "Christmas Eve", "New Year's Eve and Now it Came to Houston", "<span style="padding-left:0.15em;">'</span>Watchman, What of the Night?<span style="padding-right:0.15em;">'</span>", "Newspaper Poets"</li> <li>Part three. Newspaper Poetry: "Topical Verse", "Cap Jessamines", "The Cricket", "My Broncho", "The Modern Venus", "Celestial Sounds", "The Snow", "Her Choice", "<span style="padding-left:0.15em;">'</span>Little Things, but Ain't They Whizzers?<span style="padding-right:0.15em;">'</span>", "Last Fall of the Alamo"</li></ol></li></ul> <p>Uncollected short stories: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 25em;"> <ul><li>"Tictocq, the Great French Detective" (1894)</li> <li>"Tictocq, the Great French Detective; or, A Soubrette's Diamonds" (1894)</li> <li>"A Blow All 'Round" (1895)</li> <li>"A Chicago Proposal" (1895)</li> <li>"A Fishy Story" (1895)</li> <li>"A Foretaste" (1895)</li> <li>"A Literal Caution" (1895)</li> <li>"A Philadelphia Diagnosis" (1895)</li> <li>"A Thousand Dollar Poem, was what the Literary Judgment of the Business Manager Lost for the Paper" (1895)</li> <li>"All Right" (1895)</li> <li>"And Put Up a Dime" (1895)</li> <li>"Arrived" (1895)</li> <li>"As Her Share" (1895)</li> <li>"Ballad of the Passionate Eye" (1895)</li> <li>"Cheaper in Quantities" (1895)</li> <li>"Didn't Want Him Back" (1895)</li> <li>"Do You Know?" (1895)</li> <li>"Enlarging His Field" (1895)</li> <li>"Entirely Successful" (1895)</li> <li>"Extremes Met" (1895)</li> <li>"False to His Colors" (1895)</li> <li>"Family Pride" (1895)</li> <li>"He Was Behind With His Board" (1895)</li> <li>"Her Reckoning" (1895)</li> <li>"His Last Chance" (1895)</li> <li>"Making the Most of It" (1895)</li> <li>"Might Be" (1895)</li> <li>"Military or Millinery?" (1895)</li> <li>"No Chestnuts Were Served" (1895)</li> <li>"No Earlier" (1895)</li> <li>"Not Hers" (1895)</li> <li>"Not Official Statistics, However" (1895)</li> <li>"Palmistry" (1895)</li> <li>"Prodigality" (1895)</li> <li>"Professional, But Doubtful" (1895)</li> <li>"Prudent Precautions" (1895)</li> <li>"Same Thing" (1895)</li> <li>"Self Conceit" (1895)</li> <li>"Silver Question Settled" (1895)</li> <li>"Sunday Journalism, Memoranda of the Sabbath Editor of the New York Daily for Next Sunday's Contents" (1895)</li> <li>"The Fate It Deserved" (1895)</li> <li>"The Man at the Window" (1895)</li> <li>"The Modern Kind" (1895)</li> <li>"The New Hero" (1895)</li> <li>"The Odor Located" (1895)</li> <li>"The Teacher Taught" (1895)</li> <li>"The White Feather" (1895)</li> <li>"Uncle Sam's Wind" (1895)</li> <li>"Whole Handfuls" (1895)</li> <li>"Will She Fight as She Jokes? Here Are Some Translations of Recent Spanish Humour" (1895)</li> <li>"Yellow Specials, Latest Style of News Write Ups adopted by the sulphur-hued journals" (1895)</li> <li>"A Tragedy" (1896, as The Postman)</li> <li>"At an Auction" (1896)</li> <li>"Telegram" (1896)</li> <li>"His Courier" (1902)</li> <li>"The Flag" (1902)</li> <li>"The Guardian of the Scutcheon" (1903, as Olivier Henry)</li> <li>"The Lotus and the Cockleburrs" (1903)</li> <li>"The Point of the Story" (1903, as Sydney Porter)</li> <li>"The Quest of Soapy" (1908)</li> <li>"A Christmas Pi" (1909, as O. H-nry)</li> <li>"Adventures in Neurasthenia" (1910)</li> <li>"Last Story" (1910)</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Poems">Poems</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=O._Henry&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Poems"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Uncollected poems: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 25em;"> <ul><li>"Already Provided" (1895)</li> <li>"Archery" (1895)</li> <li>"At Cockcrow" (1895)</li> <li>"Honeymoon Vapourings" (1895)</li> <li>"Never, Until Now" (1895)</li> <li>"Ornamental" (1895)</li> <li>"The Imported Brand" (1895)</li> <li>"The Morning glory" (1895)</li> <li>"The White Violet" (1895)</li> <li>"To Her" (XRay) Photograph" (1895)</li> <li>"Unseeing" (1895)</li> <li>"Promptings" (1899)</li> <li>"Sunset in the Far North" (1901)</li> <li>"The Captive" (1901)</li> <li>"Uncaptured Joy" (1901)</li> <li>"April" (1903)</li> <li>"Auto Bugle Song" (1903)</li> <li>"June" (1903)</li> <li>"Remorse" (1903)</li> <li>"Spring in the City" (1903)</li> <li>"To a Gibson Girl" (1903)</li> <li>"Two Chapters" (1903)</li> <li>"A Floral Valentine" (1905)</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Non-fiction">Non-fiction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=O._Henry&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Non-fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 25em;"> <ul><li><i>Later Definitions</i> (1895)</li> <li><i>The Reporter's Private Lexicon</i> (1903)</li> <li><i>Letter 1883</i> (1912)</li> <li><i>Letters 1884, 1885</i> (1912)</li> <li><i>Letters 1905</i> (1914)</li> <li><i>Letters from Prison to his Daughter Margaret</i> (1916)</li> <li><i>Letter 1901</i> (1917)</li> <li><i>Letters</i> (1921)</li> <li><i>Letters to Lithopolis: from O. Henry to <a href="/wiki/Mabel_Wagnalls" title="Mabel Wagnalls">Mabel Wagnalls</a></i> (1922)</li> <li><i>Letters</i> (1923)</li> <li><i>Letter</i> (1928)</li> <li><i>Letters 1906, 1909</i> (1931)</li> <li><i>Letters, etc. of 1883</i> (1931)</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=O._Henry&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 25em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"The Marquis and Miss Sally", <i>Everybody's Magazine</i>, vol 8, issue 6, June 1903, appeared under the byline "Oliver Henry"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-eb-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-eb_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFChisholm1922" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). <span class="cs1-ws-icon" title="s:1922 Encyclopædia Britannica/Henry, O."><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1922_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Henry,_O.">"Henry, O." </a></span>. <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica" title="Encyclopædia Britannica">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i> (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Henry%2C+O.&rft.btitle=Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Britannica&rft.place=London+%26+New+York&rft.edition=12th&rft.pub=The+Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Britannica+Company&rft.date=1922&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AO.+Henry" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140310053544/http://www.northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/631/entry/">"Biography: O. Henry"</a>. <i>North Carolina History</i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/631/entry/">the original</a> on March 10, 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">March 10,</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=North+Carolina+History&rft.atitle=Biography%3A+O.+Henry&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.northcarolinahistory.org%2Fencyclopedia%2F631%2Fentry%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AO.+Henry" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChapman2008" class="citation book cs1">Chapman, Peter (2008). <i>Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World</i>. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Cannongate,_New_York&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cannongate, New York (page does not exist)">Cannongate, New York</a>. pp. 68–69, 108.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Bananas%3A+How+the+United+Fruit+Company+Shaped+the+World&rft.place=Cannongate%2C+New+York&rft.pages=68-69%2C+108&rft.date=2008&rft.aulast=Chapman&rft.aufirst=Peter&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AO.+Henry" class="Z3988"></span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_book" title="Template:Cite book">cite book</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_location_missing_publisher" title="Category:CS1 maint: location missing publisher">link</a>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCurrent-Garcia1993" class="citation book cs1">Current-Garcia, Eugene (1993). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/ohenrystudyofsho00curr/page/123"><i>O. Henry: A Study of the Short Fiction</i></a></span> (First ed.). New York City: Twayne Publishers, Macmillan Publishing Co. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/ohenrystudyofsho00curr/page/123">123</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8057-0859-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-8057-0859-6"><bdi>0-8057-0859-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=O.+Henry%3A+A+Study+of+the+Short+Fiction&rft.place=New+York+City&rft.pages=123&rft.edition=First&rft.pub=Twayne+Publishers%2C+Macmillan+Publishing+Co.&rft.date=1993&rft.isbn=0-8057-0859-6&rft.aulast=Current-Garcia&rft.aufirst=Eugene&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fohenrystudyofsho00curr%2Fpage%2F123&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AO.+Henry" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Brown_1967-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Brown_1967_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBrown1967" class="citation journal cs1">Brown CT (October 1967). "O. Henry the pharmacist". <i>Mil Med</i>. <b>132</b> (10): 823–825. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fmilmed%2F132.10.823">10.1093/milmed/132.10.823</a>. <a href="/wiki/PMID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="PMID (identifier)">PMID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4965475">4965475</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Mil+Med&rft.atitle=O.+Henry+the+pharmacist&rft.volume=132&rft.issue=10&rft.pages=823-825&rft.date=1967-10&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1093%2Fmilmed%2F132.10.823&rft_id=info%3Apmid%2F4965475&rft.aulast=Brown&rft.aufirst=CT&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AO.+Henry" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDarty2018" class="citation book cs1">Darty, Joshua (2018). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=5cBHDwAAQBAJ&dq=o+henry+riverside&pg=PA47"><i><span></span></i>Asheville's Riverside Cemetery<i><span></span></i></a>. Arcadia. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781467128193" title="Special:BookSources/9781467128193"><bdi>9781467128193</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Asheville%27s+Riverside+Cemetery&rft.pub=Arcadia&rft.date=2018&rft.isbn=9781467128193&rft.aulast=Darty&rft.aufirst=Joshua&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D5cBHDwAAQBAJ%26dq%3Do%2Bhenry%2Briverside%26pg%3DPA47&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AO.+Henry" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBoyle2023" class="citation news cs1">Boyle, John (November 30, 2023). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://avlwatchdog.org/answer-man-what-happens-to-coins-on-o-henrys-gravesite-in-riverside-cemetery-any-hope-for-dangerous-riverside-drive-interchange/">"Answer Man: What happens to coins on O. Henry's gravesite in Riverside Cemetery? Any hope for dangerous Riverside Drive interchange?"</a>. <i>Asheville Watchdog</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">December 3,</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Asheville+Watchdog&rft.atitle=Answer+Man%3A+What+happens+to+coins+on+O.+Henry%27s+gravesite+in+Riverside+Cemetery%3F+Any+hope+for+dangerous+Riverside+Drive+interchange%3F&rft.date=2023-11-30&rft.aulast=Boyle&rft.aufirst=John&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Favlwatchdog.org%2Fanswer-man-what-happens-to-coins-on-o-henrys-gravesite-in-riverside-cemetery-any-hope-for-dangerous-riverside-drive-interchange%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AO.+Henry" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Henry, O. "A Madison Square Arabian Night," from <i>The Trimmed Lamp</i>: "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." <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/8tlmp11h.htm">The Trimmed Lamp</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090926121934/http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/8tlmp11h.htm">Archived</a> September 26, 2009, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, Project Gutenberg text</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHenry" class="citation web cs1">Henry, O. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141019001654/http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1466/">"Dream"</a>. Read Book Online website. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1466/">the original</a> on October 19, 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">April 22,</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Dream&rft.pub=Read+Book+Online+website&rft.aulast=Henry&rft.aufirst=O&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.readbookonline.net%2FreadOnLine%2F1466%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AO.+Henry" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ncpedia.org/biography/porter-william-sydney-o">"Porter, William Sydney (O. Henry)"</a>. <i>Ncpedia.org</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Ncpedia.org&rft.atitle=Porter%2C+William+Sydney+%28O.+Henry%29&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fncpedia.org%2Fbiography%2Fporter-william-sydney-o&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AO.+Henry" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Davenport-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Davenport_12-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Davenport_12-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Guy Davenport, <i>The Hunter Gracchus and Other Papers on Literature and Art</i>, Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1996.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1909/04/04/101735840.pdf">"'O. Henry' on Himself, Life, and Other Things"</a> (PDF), <i>New York Times</i>, April 4, 1909, p. SM9.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Clarke-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Clarke_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJoseph_F._Clarke1977" class="citation book cs1">Joseph F. Clarke (1977). <i>Pseudonyms</i>. BCA. p. 83.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Pseudonyms&rft.pages=83&rft.pub=BCA&rft.date=1977&rft.au=Joseph+F.+Clarke&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AO.+Henry" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Bosley_Crowther" title="Bosley Crowther">Crowther, Bosley</a> (October 17, 1952). 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Alphonso (November 1916). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=lPAMVa7esS4C&pg=PA54">"The Strange Case of Sydney Porter and 'O. Henry'<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/World%27s_Work" class="mw-redirect" title="World's Work">The World's Work: A History of Our Time</a></i>. <b>XXXIII</b> (1): 54–64<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">February 26,</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+World%27s+Work%3A+A+History+of+Our+Time&rft.atitle=The+Strange+Case+of+Sydney+Porter+and+%27O.+Henry%27&rft.volume=XXXIII&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=54-64&rft.date=1916-11&rft.aulast=Smith&rft.aufirst=C.+Alphonso&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DlPAMVa7esS4C%26pg%3DPA54&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AO.+Henry" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=O._Henry&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/o-henry">Works by O. Henry in eBook form</a> at <a href="/wiki/Standard_Ebooks" title="Standard Ebooks">Standard Ebooks</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.gutenberg.org/author/Henry,+O.">Works by O. Henry</a> at <a href="/wiki/Project_Gutenberg" title="Project Gutenberg">Project Gutenberg</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28%28subject%3A%22Henry%2C%20O.%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22O.%20Henry%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Henry%2C%20O.%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22O.%20Henry%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Henry%2C%20O%2E%22%20OR%20title%3A%22O.%20Henry%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Henry%2C%20O.%22%20OR%20description%3A%22O.%20Henry%22%29%20OR%20%28%221862-1910%22%20AND%20Henry%29%29%20AND%20%28-mediatype:software%29">Works by or about O. Henry</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://librivox.org/author/421">Works by O. Henry</a> at <a href="/wiki/LibriVox" title="LibriVox">LibriVox</a> (public domain audiobooks) <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Speaker_Icon.svg/15px-Speaker_Icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Speaker_Icon.svg/23px-Speaker_Icon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Speaker_Icon.svg/30px-Speaker_Icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.austintexas.gov/department/o-henry-museum">O. Henry Museum</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070503205457/http://www.literaturecollection.com/a/o_henry/">Biography and Works</a> at LiteratureCollection.com (archived)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704852004575258824174766374">"His Writers' Workshop? A Prison Cell"</a>, John J. Miller, <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>, June 8, 2010</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0377958/">O. Henry</a> at <a href="/wiki/IMDb_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="IMDb (identifier)">IMDb</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://texashistory.unt.edu/search/?fq=untl_collection:OHENRY">O. Henry item search</a> at the Portal to Texas History (texashistory.unt.edu)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://lccn.loc.gov/n79071080">O. 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Henry</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Short stories</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Duplicity_of_Hargraves" title="The Duplicity of Hargraves">The Duplicity of Hargraves</a>" (1902)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/A_Retrieved_Reformation" title="A Retrieved Reformation">A Retrieved Reformation</a>" (1903)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Cop_and_the_Anthem" title="The Cop and the Anthem">The Cop and the Anthem</a>" (1904)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Makes_the_Whole_World_Kin" title="Makes the Whole World Kin">Makes the Whole World Kin</a>" (1904)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Last_Leaf" title="The Last Leaf">The Last Leaf</a>" (1905)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Gift_of_the_Magi" title="The Gift of the Magi">The Gift of the Magi</a>" (1905)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Skylight_Room" title="The Skylight Room">The Skylight Room</a>" (1906)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/After_Twenty_Years" title="After Twenty Years">After Twenty Years</a>" (1906)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Conscience_in_Art" title="Conscience in Art">Conscience in Art</a>" (1907)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Cisco_Kid#"The_Caballero's_Way"_(short_story)" title="The Cisco Kid">The Caballero's Way</a>" (1907)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/A_Lickpenny_Lover" title="A Lickpenny Lover">A Lickpenny Lover</a>" (1908)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/One_Thousand_Dollars" title="One Thousand Dollars">One Thousand Dollars</a>" (1908)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Third_Ingredient" title="The Third Ingredient">The Third Ingredient</a>" (1908)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Ransom_of_Red_Chief" title="The Ransom of Red Chief">The Ransom of Red Chief</a>" (1910)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Novels</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Cabbages_and_Kings_(novel)" title="Cabbages and Kings (novel)">Cabbages and Kings</a></i> (1904)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Story collections</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Four_Million" title="The Four Million">The Four Million</a></i> (1906)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Roads_of_Destiny_(short_story_collection)" title="Roads of Destiny (short story collection)">Roads of Destiny</a></i> (1909)</li> <li><i>Whirligigs</i> (1910)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Waifs_and_Strays" title="Waifs and Strays">Waifs and Strays</a></i> (1917)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/O._Henry_Award" title="O. Henry Award">O. Henry Award</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Sidney_Porter_House" title="William Sidney Porter House">William Sidney Porter House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/O._Henry_House_Museum_(San_Antonio)" title="O. Henry House Museum (San Antonio)">O. Henry House and Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/O._Henry_Hall" title="O. Henry Hall">O. Henry Hall</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Night_in_New_Arabia" title="A Night in New Arabia">A Night in New Arabia</a></i> (1917 film)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/O._Henry%27s_Full_House" title="O. Henry's Full House">O. Henry's Full House</a></i> (1952 film)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Strictly_Business_(1962_film)" title="Strictly Business (1962 film)">Strictly Business</a></i> (1962 film)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Trust_That_Went_Bust" title="The Trust That Went Bust">The Trust That Went Bust</a></i> (1983 miniseries)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Katha_Sagar" title="Katha Sagar">Katha Sagar</a></i> (1986 miniseries)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236088147">.mw-parser-output .sister-bar{display:flex;justify-content:center;align-items:baseline;font-size:88%;background-color:#fdfdfd;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;clear:both;margin:1em 0 0;padding:0 2em}.mw-parser-output .sister-bar-header{margin:0 1em 0 0.5em;padding:0.2em 0;flex:0 0 auto;min-height:24px;line-height:22px}.mw-parser-output .sister-bar-content{display:flex;flex-flow:row wrap;flex:0 1 auto;align-items:baseline;padding:0.2em 0;column-gap:1em;margin:0;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .sister-bar-item{display:flex;align-items:baseline;margin:0.15em 0;min-height:24px;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .sister-bar-logo{width:22px;line-height:22px;margin:0 0.2em;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .sister-bar-link{margin:0 0.2em;text-align:left}@media screen and (max-width:960px){.mw-parser-output .sister-bar{flex-flow:column wrap;margin:1em auto 0}.mw-parser-output .sister-bar-header{flex:0 1}.mw-parser-output .sister-bar-content{flex:1;border-top:1px solid #a2a9b1;margin:0;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .sister-bar-item{flex:0 0 20em;min-width:20em}}.mw-parser-output .navbox+link+.sister-bar,.mw-parser-output .navbox+style+.sister-bar,.mw-parser-output .portal-bar+link+.sister-bar,.mw-parser-output .portal-bar+style+.sister-bar,.mw-parser-output .sister-bar+.navbox-styles+.navbox,.mw-parser-output .sister-bar+.navbox-styles+.portal-bar{margin-top:-1px}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sister-bar{display:none!important}}</style><div class="noprint metadata sister-bar" role="navigation" aria-label="sister-projects"><div class="sister-bar-header"><b>O. 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