O. Henry

Author details

Aliases:
א הענרי, Ohenry, O'Genri, and 19 others Oliver Henry, O Henri, أو. هنري،, William Sydney Porter O'Henry, O. Henri, W.S.P. O'Henry, هنري، و.،, O. Genri, O. Henry, או הנרי, オー・ヘンリー, וילים סידני פורטר, O Genri, هنري، أو, William Sydney Porter, О Генри, Olivier Henry, O'Henry, O'Guenri
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

James Baldwin, Herman Melville, E.B. White, Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Adrienne Rich, John Steinbeck, Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, W. E. B. Du Bois, Walt Whitman, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis, Tom Wolfe, Sherwood Anderson, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Mark Twain, William Least Heat Moon, Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, Lewis Thomas, Eugene O'Neill, Gwendolyn Brooks, E. E. Cummings, Langston Hughes, Lorraine Hansberry, Annie Dillard, Carson McCullers, Robert Lowell, William Carlos Williams, Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allan Poe, Jean Toomer, W. H. Auden, Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty, Thornton Wilder, Dorothy Parker, Ambrose Bierce, Washington Irving, John Updike, Edgar Lee Masters, Patrick F. McManus, Richard Wright, Richard Rodriguez, Leslie Marmon Silko, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Paine, N. Scott Momaday, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Crane, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Penn Warren, Galway Kinnell, Marianne Moore, Irwin Shaw, Margaret Walker, Ezra Pound, Lawson Fusao Inada, Vannevar Bush, Ralph Ellison, Amiri Baraka, Denise Levertov, Bernard Malamud, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Bret Harte, Pearl S. Buck, Thomas Jefferson, Esther Forbes, Robert E. Lee, Katherine Anne Porter, Conrad Richter, George Santayana, Robinson Jeffers, William Saroyan, James Thurber, Carl Sandburg, Jacques Barzun, Robert Anderson, Cotton Mather, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Paul Farmer, Abraham Lincoln, James E. Miller, 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, Philip Morin Freneau, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, 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, Chief Joseph, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edwin Arlington Robinson, 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, Maxine Kumin, Elizabeth Bishop, Howard Nemerov, William Stafford, Randall Jarrell, John N. Morris, Vern Rutsala, Jim Wayne Miller, James Masao Mitsui, Gary Soto, Teresa Palomo Acosta, Eugenia Collier, Walter Blair, Theodore Hornberger, Margaret Wasson, Bernard DeVoto, Conrad Aiken, Byrd, William, Captain John Smith, George Washington, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Paul Hamilton Hayne, Henry Timrod, Abram Joseph Ryan, Sarah Orne Jewett, O. Henry, Stephen Vincent Benét, Paul Engle, Vachel Lindsay, Leonie Adams, James Wright, Ogden Nash, David McCord, Morris Bishop, Richard Willard Armour, Don Marquis, E. J. Kahn, Paul Horgan, White, W. L., John Davenport, Cleveland Amory, Norman Cousins, Frank C. Laubach, Jesse Stuart, Douglas S. Freeman, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Philip Hamburger, Robert C. Pooley, Day, Clarence, Theresa Helburn, Brad Schulberg: The United States in Literature (Hardcover, 1979, Scott, Foresman and Company)

The United States in Literature

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

The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime

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

A Treasury of Christmas classics.

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

Selected stories of O. Henry

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

The Gift of the Magi

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William Shakespeare, Neil Postman, Homer, Margaret Atwood, Scott McCloud, Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde, Ray Bradbury, John McPhee, Martín Espada, Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, Walt Whitman, Alice Walker, Martin Luther King Jr., Richard Brautigan, Arthur C. Clarke, Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, Maya Angelou, Guy de Maupassant, Nelson Mandela, Isabel Allende, E. E. Cummings, Rachel Carson, Langston Hughes, Lorraine Hansberry, William Wordsworth, Billy Collins, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Frayn, Edith Hamilton, Elizabeth McCracken, , R.K. Narayan, Sandra Cisneros, Walter Dean Myers, Emily Dickinson, Yusef Komunyakaa, Rudolfo A. Anaya, Ama Ata Aidoo, Galway Kinnell, Amy Tan, Joan Aiken, Wayson Choy, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Publius Ovidius Naso, Julia Alvarez, Richard Edward Connell, Derek Walcott, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alan Axelrod, James Thurber, Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, Richard Wilbur, May Swenson, William Stafford, Gary Soto, O. Henry, Toni Cade Bambara, Kunitz, Stanley, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Saki, Lian Dolan, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Kevin Feldman, Alford, Henry, Basho, Gary Blackwood, Constantine P. Cavafy, Chiyojo, Bill Cosby, Victor Hernández Cruz, 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, Shaunda Kennedy Wenger: Alabama (Hardcover, 2008, Pearson Prentice Hall) No rating

Alabama

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

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)

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)

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)

Cabbages and Kings

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