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 Conservatives' polling position has deteriorated since the local elections too. A YouGov poll last week put the party in ...

On site is a former residence now home to the O. Henry Museum, named after its former tenant: a short story writer born William Sydney Porter, but best known to his readers as O. Henry.

He was best known for a short pen name, “O. Henry.” The man behind the stories, William Sydney Porter, was a complicated character with a sharp imagination. Porter wrote hundreds of stories ...

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 ...

Mon., May 6, 2024 Local author Jess Walter’s short fiction piece, “The Dark” will be published in an anthology with the other O. Henry winners for this year.