O. Henry

Author details

Born:
Sept. 11, 1862
Died:
June 5, 1910

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O. Henry's short stories are well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings. ([Source][1].)

[1]: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry

Books by O. Henry

Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Thomas Jefferson, Esther Forbes, Sinclair Lewis, Dorothy Parker, Denise Levertov, Mark Twain, Washington Irving, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Tom Wolfe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Abraham Lincoln, Kurt Vonnegut, N. Scott Momaday, Ray Bradbury, William Carlos Williams, Maxine Kumin, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert E. Lee, Emily Dickinson, Jacques Barzun, Adrienne Rich, James Baldwin, Robinson Jeffers, John Steinbeck, Walt Whitman, E. E. Cummings, Galway Kinnell, Willa Cather, Flannery O'Connor, Eugenia Collier, Henry David Thoreau, Walter Blair, Henry James, Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Anne Porter, Irwin Shaw, Bret Harte, Leslie Silko, Lewis Thomas, Ezra Pound, Frederick Douglass, George Santayana, Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Stephen Crane, Tennessee Williams, O. Henry, Lawson Fusao Inada, Langston Hughes, Cotton Mather, Herman Melville, Morris Bishop, Robert Penn Warren, Annie Dillard, E.B. White, Ralph Ellison, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Kate Chopin, Marianne Moore, Amiri Baraka, Margaret Walker, Lorraine Hansberry, James E. Miller, Isaac Asimov, William Faulkner, Carlotta Cardenas de Dwyer, Robert Hayden, Russell J. Hogan, Kerry M. Wood Miller, James E. Miller Jr., Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer, Kerry M. Wood, John Smith, William Bradford, Sarah Kemble Knight, William Byrd II, Jonathan Edwards, Anne Bradstreet, Taylor, Edward, Phillis Wheatley, Ernest Hemingway, Philip Morin Freneau, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, John Updike, Bernard Malamud, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, James W. C. Pennington, Francis Wright, Edward Rowe Snow, Seattle Chief, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, Mollie Dorsey Sanford, Sidney Lanier, Satanta, T. S. Eliot, Richard Wright, Chief Joseph, Paul Farmer, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Eugene O'Neill, Eudora Welty, Amy Lowell, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Frost, Countee Cullen, Elinor Wylie, Sara Teasdale, James Weldon Johnson, John Crowe Ransom, Wallace Stevens, Phyllis McGinley, Arna Wendell Bontemps, Claude McKay, Louise Bogan, Lillian Hellman, Sabine R. Ulibarrí, Mona Van Duyn, Richard Wilbur, David Wagoner, Theodore Roethke, Karl Jay Shapiro, Richard Eberhart, May Swenson, Mari Evans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Edith Wharton, Howard Nemerov, William Stafford, Randall Jarrell, John N. Morris, Vern Rutsala, Jim Wayne Miller, James Masao Mitsui, Gary Soto, Teresa Palomo Acosta, Jean Toomer, Benjamin Franklin, Theodore Hornberger, Margaret Wasson, Bernard Augustine De Voto, Conrad Aiken, Byrd, William, Captain John Smith, George Washington, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Paul Hamilton Hayne, Henry Timrod, Abram Joseph Ryan, Sarah Orne Jewett, William Saroyan, Stephen Vincent Benét, Paul Engle, Vachel Lindsay, Leonie Adams, James Wright, Ogden Nash, David McCord, Sylvia Plath, Richard Willard Armour, Don Marquis, E. J. Kahn, Paul Horgan, White, W. L., John Davenport, Cleveland Amory, Norman Cousins, Frank C. Laubach, Jesse Stuart, Freeman, Douglas Southall, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Philip Hamburger, Robert C. Pooley, Day, Clarence, Theresa Helburn, Brad Schulberg, Conrad Richter, Carson McCullers, Vannevar Bush, Richard Rodriguez, Robert Lowell, Robert Anderson, Patrick F. McManus, James Thurber, Thomas Paine, Carl Sandburg, Pearl S. Buck, W. H. Auden, Edgar Lee Masters, William Least Heat Moon, Gwendolyn Brooks, Thornton Wilder: The United States in Literature (Hardcover, 1979, Scott, Foresman and Company) 3 stars

The United States in Literature

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Arnold Bennett, E. W. Hornung, O. Henry, Edgar Wallace, Sinclair Lewis, Frederick Irving Anderson, William Hope Hodgson, Michael Sims, Grant Allen, Guy Newell Boothby, George Randolph Chester: The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime (Paperback, 2009, Penguin Books) 2 stars

The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime

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William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, O. Henry, Charles Jennens, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Madeleine L'Engle, Christina Georgina Rosetti, Charles Wesley, John Milton, Saint Ephraem Syrus, Henry van Dyke, Hans Christian Andersen, St Matthew the Apostle, John Henry Hopkins, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Donne, George MacDonald, Various: A Treasury of Christmas classics. (Hardcover, 1994, H. Shaw Publishers) 4 stars

A Treasury of Christmas classics.

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O. Henry: Selected stories of O. Henry (2003, Barnes & Noble Classics) 4 stars

Selected stories of O. Henry

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O. Henry: The Gift of the Magi (Hardcover, 2006, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing) 4 stars

The Gift of the Magi

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William Shakespeare, Neil Postman, Richard Edward Connell, Kevin Feldman, Alford, Henry, Basho, Gary Blackwood, Kōnstantinos Petrou Kabaphēs, Chiyojo, Bill Cosby, Victor Hernández Cruz, Mark Twain, Jean de Sponde, Felton, Harold W., Chief Dan George, Pete Hamil, James Hurst, Janet Kay Jensen, Lady Bird Johnson, , John Kilgo, Adam Kirsch, Gabriela Mistral, Pat Mora, Edwin Muir, Amy Ash Nixon, Sally Ride, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Cynthia Rylant, Leslie Marmon Silko, Dean Smith, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, Georges-G Toudouze, Rebecca Walker, Ray Bradbury, Shaunda Kennedy Wenger, John McPhee, Lewis Carroll, Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou, Walt Whitman, E. E. Cummings, Michael Frayn, Galway Kinnell, Julia Alvarez, Richard Brautigan, Martín Espada, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Derek Walcott, Alice Walker, Homer, Toni Cade Bambara, Naomi Shihab Nye, Guy de Maupassant, Edgar Allan Poe, Yusef Komunyakaa, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Nelson Mandela, Wayson Choy, Alan Axelrod, Rachel Carson, Langston Hughes, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Walter Dean Myers, Margaret Atwood, Martin Luther King Jr., Sandra Cisneros, R.K. Narayan, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Edith Hamilton, Scott McCloud, Rudolfo A. Anaya, Lorraine Hansberry, Saki, William Wordsworth, Lian Dolan, T. S. Eliot, Ama Ata Aidoo, Robert Frost, Arthur C. Clarke, Richard Wilbur, May Swenson, William Stafford, Isabel Allende, Gary Soto, O. Henry, Arthur Conan Doyle, Kunitz, Stanley, Publius Ovidius Naso, Oscar Wilde, Amy Tan, Joan Aiken, James Thurber, Carl Sandburg, Billy Collins, Elizabeth McCracken: Alabama (Hardcover, 2008, Pearson Prentice Hall) No rating

Alabama

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O. Henry, Henry James, Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Anne Porter, Bret Harte, Truman Capote, William Faulkner, Jack London, Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Hemingway, Bernard Malamud, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Updike, Stephen Crane, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Herman Melville, Willa Cather, Cochrane, James., J. Cochrane, James Cochrane, Ring Lardner: The Penguin Book of American Short Stories James Cochrane Editor (2011, Viking) 2 stars

The Penguin Book of American Short Stories James Cochrane Editor

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O. Henry: The Four Million (Hardcover, 2007, 1st World Library - Literary Society) No rating

The Four Million

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O. Henry: The gift of the Magi and other short stories (Paperback, 1992, Dover Publications) 4 stars

The gift of the Magi and other short stories

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O. Henry: Waifs and Strays (1917) No rating

Waifs and Strays

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O. Henry: The Gift Of The Magi And Other Stories (Scholastic Classics) (2003, Scholastic Paperbacks) No rating

The Gift Of The Magi And Other Stories (Scholastic Classics)

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O. Henry: Complete Works Of O. Henry (Hardcover, 1899, Reprint Services Corp)

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Complete Works Of O. Henry

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O. Henry: The Best Short Stories of O. Henry (Hardcover, 1994, Modern Library) 4 stars

The Best Short Stories of O. Henry

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O. Henry: The Duplicity of Hargraves

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The Duplicity of Hargraves

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O. Henry: Cabbages and Kings (Hardcover, 2007, 1st World Library - Literary Society) 4 stars

Cabbages and Kings

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