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- Author: O. Henry
Early Life
The life of William Sydney Porter was much like the literature he wrote as O. Henry: a short story punctuated by unforeseen twists. His opening took place in the North Carolina mountain town of Greensboro, where he was born in the midst of the Civil War and grew up under the postwar occupation government.
O. Henry (Library of Congress)
His father, Algernon Sidney Porter, had a well-known drinking problem and no medical degree, but he was known as the best doctor...
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