Every Christmas season, I watch about a dozen or so favorite holiday films. One of them is “O. Henry’s Full House.” The 1952 film offers five adaptations of O. Henry’s great short stories with ...

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 in his ...

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 introduction, ...

On this year’s O. Henry Prize Stories. Yet the writer Andre Dubus emphasized the short story’s versatility among the major forms of literature, saying that “the short story is much closer to the poem ...

Last week in this space, we looked at O. Henry, the influential short-story writer who worked briefly for local newspapers and who — as legend has it — borrowed his pen name from a New Orleans ...

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 in his ...

One of the most famous writers in Texas history is rarely identified as a Texan. William Sidney Porter, who wrote under the pen name "O. Henry," was one of the most widely read American authors during ...