pen name for
American short-story writer
William Sydney Porter (1862- 1910). A popular and prolific writer, he is noted for his mastery of the
mechanical plot, which builds up into unexpected endings.
Porter wrote several hundred stories that romanticized the lives of ordinary people, and appeared in a number of volumes such as Cabbages and Kings (1904) and The Four Million (1906). His stories, written in the
language of the common people, often told of the victims of
fate and coincidence.
pen name of
William Sydney Porter (1862 - 1910),
American short-story writer. An extremely popular and prolific writer during his lifetime, O. Henry is noted for his sentimental, semirealistic stories dealing with the lives of modest people and his mastery of the
surprise ending.
the
pen name of
William Sydney Porter (1862 - 1910),
American short-story writer. An extremely popular and prolific writer during his lifetime, O. Henry is noted for his sentimental, semirealistic stories dealing with the lives of modest people and his mastery of the
surprise ending.
the pseudonym of
William Sydney Porter (1862 - 1910),
successful American short-story writer whose stories mainly appeared in current
magazines. These stories were collected in over a dozen books.