O. Henry

...who is comically annoying as one of the children, is also particularly fine as a pathological liar in another tale. Like those of O. Henry, Saki's stories depend on twists, though they emphasize wit more than heart. But the tales take longer...

In this article: Mark Teschner, Wolves, Saki, General Hospital, New York City, and London

...text throughout. His adaptations to the story are an improvement and worth seeking out. The truly classic "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry gets a retelling by Joel Priddy. The story of a young couple selling their prized possessions to...

In this article: HarperCollins, L. Frank Baum, Graphic Novels, and The Gift of the Magi

...and stayed open, disguised as a flower shop, during Prohibition. But the history that sent us here was one of its famous patrons. O. Henry was reputed to be a regular who wrote his masterpiece "Gift of the Magi" here. It's also where Ludwig...

In this article: Manhattan, New York City, Pete's Tavern, Strand Bookstore, Truman Capote, Broadway, and Library Hotel

...her bedroom. According to the Houston Press , this murder started a chain of killings that terrorized the city for a year. Author O. Henry referred to the killer as "The Servant Girl Annihilator". The murders stopped on Christmas Eve 1885...

In this article: Driskill Hotel, Austin, and Halloween

...might get a hint of Martin Scorsese or Woody Allen here and there, but just as pronounced are the inflections of J. D. Salinger, Paul Auster, O. Henry and many decades' worth of contributors to the Talk of the Town section of The New Yorker.

In this article: New York, I Love You, Mira Nair, Emmanuel Benbihy, Allen Hughes, Natalie Portman, Brett Ratner, Manhattan, Fatih Akin, New York, and Yvan Attal

...awarding to it me as its first recipient. I mean, I don't think Alfred Nobel won a Nobel Prize, nor did Pulitzer win a Joseph Pulitzer or O. Henry win an O. Henry award. I could go on and on. I hope I will continue to live up to the high...

In this article: Barack Obama, Mark Katz, The Daily Beast, Alfred Nobel, Time Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Michael Steele, and Joseph Pulitzer

...meets 'Star Trek' meets David Foster Wallace meets Kanye West." Diaz's fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, African Voices, "Best American Short Stories" (1996, 1997, 1999, 2000), "Pushcart Prize XXII" and "The O'Henry Prize Stories 2009."

In this article: Junot Diaz, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, The New Yorker, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, David Foster Wallace, O'Henry, Mario Vargas Llosa, Kanye West, and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

...hot-pink beanbag chair, the sixth-grader reviewed notes for a geography test while students on either side of her read paperback works by O. Henry and Edgar Allan Poe. A dozen kids across the room conducted Internet research on their...

In this article: No Child Left Behind Act, Edgar Allan Poe, and Thurgood Marshall

...world's most famous authors were drinkers with a writing problem. Authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, James Joyce and O. Henry were all celebrated scribes who were helped, and more often hindered, by the bottle. And while...

In this article: E mail, The Baltimore Sun, Wind, Sand and Stars, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, and Antoine de Saint-Exupery

...1881. The restaurant/saloon has stood at various locations around downtown, and its history includes regular visits from Teddy Roosevelt, O. Henry and Will Rogers. Its current incarnation has stood on Houston Street since 1998. "He...

In this article: San Antonio, Aetna, World War II, Edison High School, and University of Texas