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 >>After nine years of marriage and many years of separation, Steel and Lazard divorced. In 1972 her first novel, Going Home, was published. The novel contained many of the themes that her writing would become known for, including a focus on family issues an
Continue reading >>Dan Brown loves his goddesses. So much so that not only is 'woman power' revealed as the universal secret behind all the events in his novel The Da Vinci Code, but the real-life force behind the man and the book turns out to be his wife, Blythe.
Continue reading >>James Patterson is not a recluse, but he does strive to keep a majority of details regarding his personal life low key. James and his wife, Susan, have enjoyed a long marriage and have a teenage son, Jack.
Continue reading >>The wife of famed author Robert B. Parker died last week.
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