O. Henry biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of O. Henry

Author Name:

O. Henry

Born As:

Pseudonym of William Sydney Porter.

Other Names:

Born:

11 Sep 1862

Died:

05 Jun 1910




author picture
Writer and pharmacist                          
                          
Mother Mary Jane Virginia Swaim Porter
Father Dr. Algernon Sidney Porter
Wife Athol Estes, gave birth to a son in 1888 - died hours after birth, a daughter, Margaret Worth Porter, bornin September 1889. Athol Estes Porter died on July 25, 1897, from tuberculosis
Second wife Sarah Lindsey Coleman, separated.

Daughter, Margaret Worth Porter, died in 1927.                          
                          
He changed the spelling of his middle name, Sidney to Sydney when he first began writing as a journalist in the 1880s.