Our story today is called "One Thousand Dollars." It was written by O. Henry. Here is Steve Ember with the story. STEVE EMBER: "One thousand dollars," said the lawyer Tolman, in a severe and serious ...

Our story today is called "The Last Leaf." It was written by O. Henry. Here is Barbara Klein with the story. Many artists lived in the Greenwich Village area of New York. Two young women named Sue and ...

O. Henry’s characters ... Porter believed that their lives had genuine human interest, and, as a short-story writer, he is on their side. His own money troubles stemmed in part from his ...

Henry and penned some of his best short stories.” Released after three years for good behavior, O. Henry moved to Pittsburgh where Margaret, now 12, lived with her grandparents. She was never ...

I first realized there was more to O. Henry than surprise endings when, a few years ago, I picked up a Penguin edition of the writer’s selected stories edited by Guy Davenport. In his ...

His popular (and populist) short stories pretty much invited adaptations, a calculated risk that Hollywood decided to gamble on in 1952, when 20th Century Fox released O. Henry's Full House ...

The American writer O. Henry (pen name of William Sydney Porter 1862-1910) is considered a master of short story form with a prolific canon: eleven collections published during his lifetime ...

He attracted an international following for his finely crafted short stories that often ended in ironic "O. Henry twists," perfect for readers of popular magazines, newspapers and, later ...