PORTER, WILLIAM SYDNEY (1862–1910). William Sydney Porter [pseud. O. Henry], writer, was born on September 11, 1862, in Greensboro, North Carolina, the son of Dr. Algernon Sidney and Mary Jane Virginia (Swaim) Porter.His middle name was originally spelled
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Agricultural Economist, Author. Dr. John Lossing Buck, known as Lossing to his friends, graduated from Cornell University in 1914. He later returned to Cornell and received an M.S. in 1925 and PhD in 1933. Lossing went to China in 1915 as an agricultural
Continue reading >>If anyone is qualified to write stories about love, it is Nicholas Sparks, who met his wife Cathy on a Monday and on Tuesday, told her he was going to marry her. That was 23 years ago and the couple is still happily together.
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Continue reading >>A Stephen King biography is surprisingly devoid of adventure and thrills, unlike his best-selling novels. King has sold more than 350 million copies of books, and he has seen many of them adapted into movies and television shows. Learning about Stephen Ki
Continue reading >>Lunchtime. Stephen and Tabitha King sit down to soup and sandwiches in the ornate dining room of their huge Victorian home in Bangor, Maine. They speak earnestly about things like werewolves and hunchbacks. "When's that coffin coming?" he asks. "Tomorrow.
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