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A Short Biography of O. Henry

Author Name:

O. Henry

Born As:

Other Names:

Pseudonym of William Sydney Porter, name taken from one of the guards during his time in prison.

Born:

1862

Died:

1910




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Short story writer                          
                          
Mother Mary Jane Virginia Swain Porter
Father  Algernon Sidney Porter
Wife Athol Estes, two children,  a son, who died hours after birth, and then a daughter, Margaret Worth Porter.                          
                          
His middle name at birth was Sidney; he changed the spelling to Sydney in 1898.