উইলিয়াম সিডনি পোর্টার (ও. হেনরি -O. Henry).
"It was during these New Orleans days that I adopted my pen name of O. Henry. I said to a friend: "I'm going to send out some stuff. I don't know if it amounts to much, so I want to get a literary alias. Help me pick out a good one." He suggested that we get a newspaper and pick a name from the first list of notables that we found in it. In the society columns we found the account of a fashionable ball. "Here we have our notables," said he. We looked down the list and my eye lighted on the name Henry, "That'll do for a last name," said I. "Now for a first name. I want something short. None of your three-syllable names for me." "Why don't you use a plain initial letter, then?" asked my friend. "Good," said I, "O is about the easiest letter written, and O it is." A newspaper once wrote and asked me what the O stands for. I replied, "O stands for Olivier, the French for Oliver." And several of my stories accordingly appeared in that paper under the name Olivier Henry.
বিশ্বখ্যাত লেখক ও. হেনরি (O. Henry) অত্যন্ত জনপ্রিয় গল্পকার, সাহিত্যিক। ‘ও হেনরি’ আসলে লেখকের ছদ্মনাম। তাঁর আসল নাম উইলিয়াম সিডনি পোর্টার। নিজেকে আড়াল করে রচনাকে আরো সমৃদ্ধতর করতে ছদ্মনাম। রসিকতা, বিশেষ ধরনের চরিত্রায়ন ও গল্পের শেষে চমকের জন্য বিশ্বসাহিত্যে পরিচিত ও বিখ্যাত ও হেনরি। তিনি আমেরিকান জীবনযাপন নিয়ে ছয় শতাধিক গল্প লিখেছেন।
উইলিয়াম সিডনী পোর্টার ১৮৬২ সালের ১১ সেপ্টেম্বর আমেরিকার নর্থ ক্যারোলিনার গ্রিনসবরোতে জন্মগ্রহণ করেন। তার বাবার নাম এ্যালগারনন সিডনি পোর্টার, পেশায় ছিলেন চিকিৎসক। মাতার নাম মেরী জেন ভারজিনিয়া সোয়াইম পোর্টার। হেনরি তিন বছর বয়সে মাকে হারিয়ে দাদি ও ফুফুর কাছে বড় হন। ১৫ বছর বয়স পর্যন্ত স্কুলে পড়ে কিছুদিন নিকটাত্মীয়ের ওষুধের দোকানে চাকরি করেন। পরে চাকরি নেন ব্যাংকের কেরানি পদে। এরই মধ্যে রম্য সাপ্তাহিক ‘দ্য রোলিং স্টোন’ বের করেন তিনি। কাগজটি না চলায় হিউস্টন পোস্টে সাংবাদিক হিসেবে যোগ দেন। এদিকে ব্যাংকে ভুলবশত তাঁর বিরুদ্ধে অর্থ আত্মসাতের অভিযোগ উঠলে তিনি প্রথমে নিউ অরলিয়ন্স, সেখান থেকে হন্ডুরাস চলে যান। স্ত্রীর গুরুতর অসুস্থতার খবর পেয়ে দেশে ফিরে এসে পুলিশে ধরা দেন এবং পাঁচ বছরের জেল হয়। ১৮৯৮ সালে ওহাইও রাজ্যের কলম্বাসের সংশোধনাগারে পাঠান হয়। সেখানে নিবন্ধিত ফার্মাসিস্ট হিসেবে জেল কারাগারে রাতে কাজ করতেন।
জেলে থাকাকালে ১৪টি গল্প লেখেন হেনরি বিভিন্ন ছদ্মনামে। এর মধ্যে সবচেয়ে বেশি পরিচিতি পায় ‘ও হেনরি’ নামটি। অলিভার হেনরি নামটি প্রথম ব্যবহার করেন ১৮৯৯ সালের ম্যাকক্লারেস ম্যাগাজিনে প্রকাশিত ‘হুইসলিং ডিকস ক্রিস্টমাস স্টকিং’ গল্পে। পরে অলিভার হেনরি থেকে হন ও হেনরি। নিউ অরলিয়ন্সের এক বন্ধু গল্পটি পত্রিকায় পাঠান। পত্রিকা কর্তৃপক্ষের ধারণাই ছিল না লেখক জেলেবন্দী আসামি। সাজা তিন বছর ভোগ করার পরই ভালো আচরণের সুবাদে ১৯০২ সালের ২৪ জুলাই তাঁকে মুক্তি দেওয়া হয়। এরপর পেনসিলভানিয়ায় গিয়ে মেয়ে মার্গারেটের সঙ্গে মিলিত হন। মার্গারেটকে কখনো বলা হয়নি তার বাবা জেলে ছিলেন। তিনি জানতেন ব্যবসার কারণে তিনি বাইরে আছেন।
সেখান থেকে ১৯০২ সালে চলে আসেন নিউইয়র্কে। সেখানকার নিউইয়র্ক ওয়ার্ল্ড ও অন্যান্য প্রকাশকদের জন্য সপ্তাহে একটা করে গল্প লিখতে হতো। তার প্রথম গল্প সংকলনের নাম ‘ক্যাবাজেস এ্যান্ড কিংস’ (১৯০৪)। নিউইয়র্কে থাকাকালে ৩৮১টির মতো গল্প লেখেন। প্রথম গল্প সংকলন ‘ক্যাবাজেস অ্যান্ড কিংস’ (১৯০৪)। দুই বছর পর আসে দ্বিতীয় গল্প সংকলন ‘দ্য ফোর মিলিয়ন’। বিখ্যাত গল্প ‘দ্য গিফট অব ম্যাজাই’, ‘দ্য স্কাইলাইট রুম’ ও ‘দ্য গ্রিন ডোর’ এই সংকলনেই ছিল। পাঠকপ্রিয় অন্যান্য সংকলনের মধ্যে রয়েছে ‘রোডস টু ডেস্টিনি’ ও ‘সিক্সেস এ্যান্ড সেভেনস’। গল্পগুলো তার সমকালকেই ধারণ করে। অধিকাংশ গল্পের চরিত্র সমাজের নিচুতলার মানুষ। তাদের নিঃসঙ্গতা এ সব গল্পে চমৎকারভাবে ফুটে উঠেছে।
জীবদ্দশায় ও হেনরি বেশ খ্যাতিলাভ করেন, হয়ে ওঠেন প্রভাবশালী লেখক। তার গল্প বিভিন্ন ভাষায় অনূদিত হয়েছে। সবচেয়ে বড় দিক হলো তার গল্প বিভিন্ন দেশে পাঠ্যক্রমে স্থান পেয়েছে। নির্মিত হয় চলচ্চিত্র। তার জীবদ্দশায় মুক্তি পায় তিনটি নির্বাক ছবি- ‘দ্য স্যাক্রিসাইস’ (১৯০৯), ‘ট্রাইং টু গেট এ্যারেস্টেড’ (১৯০৯) ও ‘হিজ ডিউটি’ (১৯০৯)। তার লেখা অবলম্বনে নির্মিত আরও দুটি বিখ্যাত ছবি হলো ‘দ্য এ্যারিজোনা কিড’ (১৯৩১) ও ‘দ্য কিসকো কিড’ (১৯৩১)। ১৯৫২ সালে পাঁচটি গল্প নিয়ে নির্মিত হয়েছে ‘ও হেনরিস ফুল হাউস’। এতে স্থান পেয়েছে ‘দ্য কপ এ্যান্ড দ্য এ্যান্থেম’, ‘দ্য ক্লারিওন কল’, ‘দ্য লাস্ট লিফ’, ‘দ্য রানসাম অব রেড চিফ’ ও ‘দ্য গিফট অব ম্যাজাই’।
তিনি প্রায় ছয়শতাধিক গল্প লিখেছেন। বিষয়বস্তুর গভীরতা, শব্দের খেলা, নিখুঁত চরিত্রাংকন ও চমৎপ্রদ পরিসমাপ্তি প্রভৃতি ছিলো তার গল্পের মূল সম্পদ। তার সর্বাধিক জনপ্রিয় সংকলনগুলি হলো- ‘বাঁধাকপি এবং রাজা'(Cabbages and Kings), ‘নিয়তির রাস্তা’ (Roads of Destiny) এবং ‘ছয়-সাত'(Sixes and Sevens)। তার বিশ্বখ্যাত ছোটগল্পগুলোর মধ্যে- A Blackjack Bargainer, The Princess and the Puma, The Coming-Out of Maggie, The Ransom of Red Chief, The Gift of the Magi, The Whirligig of Life, The Last Leaf প্রভৃতি বিশ্বসাহিত্যের সম্পদ।
Short stories :
Collections
Cabbages and Kings (1904), novel consisting of linked stories. Collection of 19 short storie
"The Proem: By the Carpenter", "'Fox-in-the-Morning'", "The Lotus and the Bottle", "Smith", "Caught", "Cupid's Exile Number Two", "The Phonograph and the Graft", "Money Maze", "The Admiral", "The Flag Paramount", "The Shamrock and the Palm", "The Remnants of the Code", "Shoes", "Ships", "Masters of Arts", "Dicky", "Rouge et Noir", "Two Recalls", "The Vitagraphoscope
The Four Million (1906), collection of 25 short stories
"Tobin's Palm", "The Gift of the Magi", "A Cosmopolite in a Cafe", "Between Rounds", "The Skylight Room", "A Service of Love", "The Coming-Out of Maggie", "Man About Town", "The Cop and the Anthem", "An Adjustment of Nature", "Memoirs of a Yellow Dog", "The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein", "Mammon and the Archer", "Springtime à la Carte", "The Green Door", "From the Cabby's Seat", "An Unfinished Story", "The Caliph, Cupid and the Clock", "Sisters of the Golden Circle", "The Romance of a Busy Broker", "After Twenty Years", "Lost on Dress Parade", "By Courier", "The Furnished Room", "The Brief Debut of Tildy
The Trimmed Lamp (1907), collection of 25 short stories
"The Trimmed Lamp", "A Madison Square Arabian Night", "The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball", "The Pendulum", "Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen", "The Assessor of Success", "The Buyer from Cactus City", "The Badge of Policeman O'Roon", "Brickdust Row" (made into the 1918 film, Everybody's Girl), "The Making of a New Yorker", "Vanity and Some Sables", "The Social Triangle", "The Purple Dress", "The Foreign Policy of Company 99", "The Lost Blend", "A Harlem Tragedy", "'The Guilty Party'", "A Midsummer Knight's Dream", "According to Their Lights", "The Last Leaf", "The Count and the Wedding Guest", "The Country of Elusion", "The Ferry of Unfulfilment", "The Tale of a Tainted Tenner", "Elsie in New York
Heart of the West (1907), collection of 19 short stories
"Hearts and Crosses", "The Ransom of Mack", "Telemachus, Friend", "The Handbook of Hymen", "The Pimienta Pancakes", "Seats of the Haughty", "Hygeia at the Solito", "An Afternoon Miracle", "The Higher Abdication", "Cupid à la Carte", "The Caballero's Way", "The Sphinx Apple", "The Missing wChord", "A Call Loan", "The Princess and the Puma", "The Indian Summer of Dry Valley Johnson", "Christmas by Injunction", "A Chaparral Prince", "The Reformation of Calliope
The Gentle Grafter (1908), collection of 14 short stories
"The Octopus Marooned", "Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet", "Modern Rural Sports", "The Chair of Philanthromathematics", "The Hand That Riles the World", "The Exact Science of Matrimony", "A Midsummer Masquerade", "Shearing the Wolf", "Innocents of Broadway", "Conscience in Art", "The Man Higher Up", "Tempered Wind", "Hostages to Momus", "The Ethics of Pig
The Voice of the City (1908), collection of 25 short stories
"The Voice of the City", "The Complete Life of John Hopkins", "A Lickpenny Lover", "Dougherty's Eye-opener", "'Little Speck in Garnered Fruit'", "The Harbinger", "While the Auto Waits", "A Comedy in Rubber", "One Thousand Dollars", "The Defeat of the City", "The Shocks of Doom", "The Plutonian Fire", "Nemesis and the Candy Man", "Squaring the Circle", "Roses, Ruses and Romance", "The City of Dreadful Night", "The Easter of the Soul", "The Fool-killer", "Transients in Arcadia", "The Rathskeller and the Rose", "The Clarion Call", "Extradited from Bohemia", "A Philistine in Bohemia", "From Each According to His Ability", "The Memento
Roads of Destiny (1909), collection of 22 short stories
"Roads of Destiny", "The Guardian of the Accolade", "The Discounters of Money", "The Enchanted Profile", "Next to Reading Matter", "Art and the Bronco", "Phoebe", "A Double-dyed Deceiver", "The Passing of Black Eagle", "A Retrieved Reformation", "Cherchez la Femme", "Friends in San Rosario", "The Fourth in Salvador", "The Emancipation of Billy", "The Enchanted Kiss", "A Departmental Case", "The Renaissance at Charleroi", "On Behalf of the Management", "Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking", "The Halberdier of the Little Rheinschloss", "Two Renegades", "The Lonesome Road
Options (1909), collection of 16 short stories
"'The Rose of Dixie'", "The Third Ingredient", "The Hiding of Black Bill", "Schools and Schools", "Thimble, Thimble", "Supply and Demand", "Buried Treasure", "To Him Who Waits", "He Also Serves", "The Moment of Victory", "The Head-hunter", "No Story", "The Higher Pragmatism", "Best-seller", "Rus in Urbe", "A Poor Rule
The Two Women (1910), collection of 2 short stories
"A Fog in Santone", "Blind Man's Holiday
Strictly Business (1910), collection of 23 short stories
"Strictly Business", "The Gold That Glittered", "Babes in the Jungle", "The Day Resurgent", "The Fifth Wheel", "The Poet and the Peasant", "The Robe of Peace", "The Girl and the Graft", "The Call of the Tame", "The Unknown Quantity", "The Thing's the Play", "A Ramble in Aphasia", "A Municipal Report", "Psyche and the Pskyscraper", "A Bird of Bagdad", "Compliments of the Season", "A Night in New Arabia", "The Girl and the Habit", "Proof of the Pudding", "Past One at Rooney's", "The Venturers", "The Duel", "'What You Want'
Whirligigs (1910), collection of 24 short stories
"The World and the Door", "The Theory and the Hound", "The Hypotheses of Failure", "Calloway's Code", "A Matter of Mean Elevation", "Girl", "Sociology in Serge and Straw", "The Ransom of Red Chief", "The Marry Month of May", "A Technical Error", "Suite Homes and Their Romance", "The Whirligig of Life", "A Sacrifice Hit", "The Roads We Take", "A Blackjack Bargainer", "The Song and the Sergeant", "One Dollar's Worth", "A Newspaper Story", "Tommy's Burglar", "A Chaparral Christmas Gift", "A Little Local Colour", "Georgia's Ruling", "Blind Man's Holiday", "Madame Bo-Peep of the Ranches
Sixes and Sevens (1911), collection of 25 short stories
"The Last of the Troubadours", "The Sleuths", "Witches' Loaves", "The Pride of the Cities", "Holding Up a Train", "Ulysses and the Dogman", "The Champion of the Weather", "Makes the Whole World Kin", "At Arms with Morpheus", "A Ghost of a Chance", "Jimmy Hayes and Muriel", "The Door of Unrest", "The Duplicity of Hargraves", "Let Me Feel Your Pulse", "October and June", "The Church with an Overshot-Wheel", "New York by Camp Fire Light", "The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes", "The Lady Higher Up", "The Greater Coney", "Law and Order", "Transformation of Martin Burney", "The Caliph and the Cad", "The Diamond of Kali", "The Day We Celebrate
Rolling Stones (1912), collection o
23 short stories: "The Dream", "A Ruler of Men", "The Atavism of John Tom Little Bear", "Helping the Other Fellow", "The Marionettes", "The Marquis and Miss Sally", "A Fog in Santone", "The Friendly Call", "A Dinner at ———", "Sound and Fury" (1903, "Tictocq", "Tracked to Doom", "A Snapshot at the President", "An Unfinished Christmas Story", "The Unprofitable Servant", "Aristocracy Versus Hash", "The Prisoner of Zembla", "A Strange Story", "Fickle Fortune, or How Gladys Hustled", "An Apology", "Lord Oakhurst's Curse", "Bexar Scrip No. 2692.", "Queries and Answers
12 poems
"The Pewee", "Nothing to say", "The Murderer
Some Postscripts: "Two Portraits", "A Contribution", "The Old Farm", "Vanity", "The Lullaby Boy", "Chanson de Bohême", "Hard to Forget", "Drop a Tear in This Slot", "Tamales
letters: "Some Letters
Waifs and Strays (1917), collection of 12 short stories
"The Red Roses of Tonia", "Round The Circle", "The Rubber Plant's Story", "Out of Nazareth", "Confessions of a Humorist", "The Sparrows in Madison Square", "Hearts and Hands", "The Cactus", "The Detective Detector", "The Dog and the Playlet", "A Little Talk About Mobs", "The Snow Man
O. Henryana (1920), collection of 7 short stories
"The Crucible", "A Lunar Episode", "Three Paragraphs", "Bulger's Friend", "A Professional Secret", "The Elusive Tenderloin", "The Struggle of the Outliers
Postscripts (1923), collection of 103 short stories, 26 poems and 4 articles
"The Sensitive Colonel Jay", "Taking No Chances", "A Matter of Loyalty", "The Other Side of It", "Journalistically Impossible", "The Power of Reputation", "The Distraction of Grief", "A Sporting Interest", "Had A Use for It", "The Old Landmark", "A Personal Insult", "Toddlekins" (poem), "Reconciliation", "Buying a Piano", "Too Late", "Nothing to say" (poem), "'Goin Home fur Christmas'" (poem), "Just a Little Damp", "Her Mysterious Charm", "Convinced", "His Dilemma", "Something for Baby" (poem), "Some Day", "A Green Hand", "A Righteous Outburst", "Getting at the Facts", "Just for a Change" (poem), "Too Wise", "A Fatal Error", "Prompt" (poem), "An Opportunity Declined", "Correcting a Great Injustice", "A Startling Demonstration", "Leap Year Advice" (article), "After Supper", "His Only Opportunity", "Getting Acquainted", "Answers to Inquiries" (article), "City Peril", "Hush Money", "Relieved", "No Time to Lose", "A Villainous Trick", "A Forced March" (poem), "Book Review" (article), "A Conditional Pardon", "Inconsistency" (poem), "Bill Nye", "To a Portrait" (poem), "A Guarded Secret", "A Pastel", "Jim" (poem), "Board and Ancestors", "An X-Ray Fable", "A Universal Favorite", "Spring" (poem), "The Sporting Editor on Culture", "A Question of Direction", "The Old Farm" (poem), "Willing to Compromise", "Ridiculous", "Guessed Everything Else", "The Prisoner of Zembla", "Lucky Either Way", "The Bad Man", "Slight Mistake", "Delayed", "A Good Story Spoiled", "Revenge", "No Help for It", "Riley's Luck" (poem), "Not So Much a Tam Fool", "A Guess-Proof Mystery Story", "Futility" (poem), "Wounded Veteran", "Her Ruse", "Why Conductors Are Morose", "The Pewee" (poem), "'Only to Lie-'" (poem), "The Sunday Excursionist", "Decoration Day", "Charge of the White Brigade" (poem), "An Inspiration", "Coming To Him", "His Pension", "Winner", "Hungry Henry's Ruse", "A Proof Of Love" (poem), "One Consolation", "An Unsuccessful Experiment", "Superlatrives" (poem), "By Easy Stages", "Even Worse", "The Shock", "The Cynic", "Speaking of Big Winds", "An Original Idea", "Calculations", "A Valedictory", "Solemn Thoughts", "Explaining It", "Her Failing", "A Disagreement", "An E for a Knee" (poem), "The Unconquerable" (poem), "An Expensive Veracity", "Grounds for Uneasiness", "It Covers Errors" (poem), "Recognition", "His Doubt", "A Cheering Thought", "What It Was", "Vanity" (poem), "Identified", "The Apple", "How It Started", "How Red Conlin Told the Widow", "Why He Hesitated", "Turkish Questions" (poem), "Somebody Lied", "Marvelous", "The Confession of a Murderer", "Get Off the Earth" (poem), "The Stranger's Appeal", "The Good Boy", "The Colonel's Romance", "A Narrow Escape", "A Year's Supply", "Eugene Field" (poem), "Slightly Mixed", "Knew What Was Needed", "Some Ancient News Notes" (article), "A Sure Method
O. Henry Encore (1939), collection of 27 short stories, 7 sketches and 10 poems
Part one. Stories: "A Night Errant", "In Mezzotint", "The Dissipated Jeweller", "How Willie Saved Father", "The Mirage on the Frio", "Sufficient Provocation", "The Bruised Reed", "Paderewski's Hair", "A Mystery of Many Centuries", "A Strange Case", "Simmons' Saturday Night", "An Unknown Romance", "Jack the Giant Killer", "The Pint Flask", "An Odd Character", "A Houston Romance", "The Legend of San Jacinto", "Binkley's Practical School of Journalism", "A New Microbe", "Vereton Villa", "Whisky Did It", "Nothing New Under the Sun", "Led Astray", "A Story for Men", "How She Got in the Swim", "The Barber Talks", "Barber Shop Adventure
Part two. Sketches: "Did You See the Circus", "Thanksgiving Remarks", "When the Train Comes in", "Christmas Eve", "New Year's Eve and Now it Came to Houston", "'Watchman, What of the Night?'", "Newspaper Poets
Part three. Newspaper Poetry: "Topical Verse", "Cap Jessamines", "The Cricket", "My Broncho", "The Modern Venus", "Celestial Sounds", "The Snow", "Her Choice", "'Little Things, but Ain't They Whizzers?'", "Last Fall of the Alamo
Uncollected short stories
"Tictocq, the Great French Detective" (189
"Tictocq, the Great French Detective; or, A Soubrette’s Diamonds" (1894
"A Blow All 'Round" (1895
"A Chicago Proposal" (1895
"A Fishy Story" (1895
"A Foretaste" (1895
"A Literal Caution" (1895
"A Philadelphia Diagnosis" (1895
"A Thousand Dollar Poem, was what the Literary Judgment of the Business Manager Lost for the Paper" (1895
"All Right" (1895
"And Put Up a Dime" (1895
"Arrived" (1895
"As Her Share" (1895
"Ballad of the Passionate Eye" (1895
"Cheaper in Quantities" (1895
"Didn't Want Him Back" (1895
"Do You Know?" (1895
"Enlarging His Field" (1895
"Entirely Successful" (1895
"Extremes Met" (1895
"False to His Colors" (1895
"Family Pride" (1895
"He Was Behind With His Board" (1895
"Her Reckoning" (1895
"His Last Chance" (1895
"Making the Most of It" (1895
"Might Be" (1895
"Military or Millinery?" (1895
"No Chestnuts Were Served" (1895
"No Earlier" (1895
"Not Hers" (1895
"Not Official Statistics, However" (1895
"Palmistry" (1895
"Prodigality" (1895
"Professional, But Doubtful" (1895
"Prudent Precautions" (1895
"Same Thing" (1895
"Self Conceit" (1895
"Silver Question Settled" (1895
"Sunday Journalism, Memoranda of the Sabbath Editor of the New York Daily for Next Sunday's Contents" (1895
"The Fate It Deserved" (1895
"The Man at the Window" (1895
"The Modern Kind" (1895
"The New Hero" (1895
"The Odor Located" (1895
"The Teacher Taught" (1895
"The White Feather" (1895
"Uncle Sam's Wind" (1895
"Whole Handfuls" (1895
"Will She Fight as She Jokes? Here Are Some Translations of Recent Spanish Humour" (1895
"Yellow Specials, Latest Style of News Write Ups adopted by the sulphur-hued journals" (1895
"A Tragedy" (1896, as The Postman
"At an Auction" (1896
"Telegram" (1896
"His Courier" (1902
"The Flag" (1902
"The Guardian of the Scutcheon" (1903, as Olivier Henry
"The Lotus and the Cockleburrs" (1903
"The Point of the Story" (1903, as Sydney Porter
"The Quest of Soapy" (1908
"A Christmas Pi" (1909, as O. H-nry
"Adventures in Neurasthenia" (1910
"Last Story" (1910
Poems
Uncollected poems
"Already Provided" (189
"Archery" (1895
"At Cockcrow" (1895
"Honeymoon Vapourings" (1895
"Never, Until Now" (1895
"Ornamental" (1895
"The Imported Brand" (1895
"The Morning glory" (1895
"The White Violet" (1895
"To Her" (XRay) Photograph" (1895
"Unseeing" (1895
"Promptings" (1899
"Sunset in the Far North" (1901
"The Captive" (1901
"Uncaptured Joy" (1901
"April" (1903
"Auto Bugle Song" (1903
"June" (1903
"Remorse" (1903
"Spring in the City" (1903
"To a Gibson Girl" (1903
"Two Chapters" (1903
"A Floral Valentine" (1905
Non-fiction Edi
Later Definitions (1895
The Reporter’s Private Lexicon (1903
Letter 1883 (1912
Letters 1884, 1885 (1912
Letters 1905 (1914
Letters from Prison to his Daughter Margaret (1916
Letter 1901 (1917
Letters (1921
Letters to Lithopolis: from O. Henry to Mabel Wagnalls (1922
Letters (1923
Letter (1928
Letters 1906, 1909 (1931
Letters, etc. of 1883 (1931
Musical adaptations
The Furnished Room An opera in one long act based on the story of the same name. Music by Daniel Steven Crafts. Libretto by Richard Kuss .
১৮৮৭ সালে ও হেনরি এথোলা ইস্টেসকে বিয়ে করেন। দাম্পত্য জীবনে মার্গারেট ওয়ার্থ পোর্টার নামে এক মেয়ে ছিলো। ১৮৯৭ সালে তার স্ত্রীর মৃত্যু হয়। পরে ১৯০৭ সালে তিনি তার শৈশব প্রণয়ী সারাহ লিন্ডসে কলিমেনকে বিয়ে করেন যদিও ১৯০৮ সালে তারা পৃথক হয়ে যান।
The O. Henry Award is a prestigious annual prize named after Porter and given to outstanding short stories.
A film was made in 1952 featuring five stories, called O. Henry's Full House. The episode garnering the most critical acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem" starring Charles Laughton and Marilyn Monroe. The other stories are "The Clarion Call" starring Richard Widmark, "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief" (starring Fred Allen and Oscar Levant), and "The Gift of the Magi".
The 1986 Indian anthology television series Katha Sagar adapted several of Henry's short stories as episodes including "The Last Leaf".
An opera in one long act, The Furnished Room, with music by Daniel Steven Crafts and libretto by Richard Kuss, is based on O. Henry's story of the same name.
The O. Henry House and O. Henry Hall, both in Austin, Texas, are named for him. O. Henry Hall, now owned by the Texas State University System, previously served as the federal courthouse in which O. Henry was convicted of embezzlement. The O. Henry House has been the site of the O. Henry Pun-Off, an annual spoken word competition inspired by Porter's love of language, since 1978.
Porter has elementary schools named for him in Greensboro, North Carolina (William Sydney Porter Elementary) and Garland, Texas (O. Henry Elementary), as well as a middle school in Austin, Texas (O. Henry Middle School). The O. Henry Hotel in Greensboro is also named for Porter, as is US 29 which is O. Henry Boulevard.
In 1962, the Soviet Postal Service issued a stamp commemorating O. Henry's 100th birthday. On September 11, 2012, the United States Postal Service issued a stamp commemorating the 150th anniversary of O. Henry's birth.
On November 23, 2011, Barack Obama quoted O. Henry while granting pardons to two turkeys named "Liberty" and "Peace". In response, political science professor P. S. Ruckman Jr. and Texas attorney Scott Henson filed a formal application for a posthumous pardon in September 2012, the same month that the U.S. Postal Service issued its O. Henry stamp.Previous attempts were made to obtain such a pardon for Porter in the administrations of Woodrow Wilson, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan,but no one had ever bothered to file a formal application.Ruckman and Henson argued that Porter deserved a pardon because
(1) he was a law-abiding citizen prior to his conviction;
(2) his offense was minor;
(3) he had an exemplary prison record;
(4) his post-prison life clearly indicated rehabilitation;
(5) he would have been an excellent candidate for clemency in his time, had he but applied for pardon;
(6) by today's standards, he remains an excellent candidate for clemency; and
(7) his pardon would be a well-deserved symbolic gesture and more.
(8)The pardon remains ungranted.
শেষ বয়সে অতিরিক্ত মদপানের কারণে তিনি গুরুতর অসুস্থ হয়ে পড়েন। ও হেনরি ১৯১০ সালের ৫ জুন নিউ ইয়র্ক সিটিতে মৃত্যুবরণ করেন।
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