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 >>Hemingway married Martha Gellhorn on November 21, 1940, in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Hemingway's friend, Robert Capa, photographed the ceremony for Life. After the wedding, they moved to a large house outside Havana, Cuba.
Continue reading >>Meta Carpenter Wilde was William Faulkner’s lover of many years. Her NYT obituary says 18 years, but the book’s dust jacket says 30. The latter, I’m guessing, reflects the years they stayed in touch.
Continue reading >>While in Pascagoula, Faulkner fell in love with a local belle, Helen Baird. Faulkner subsequently dedicated both "Mosquitoes" and "Wild Palms" to Helen. But their marriage was not to be. Their lifestyles were too different -- she Southern aristocrat, he m
Continue reading >>As a teenager in Oxford, Faulkner dated Estelle Oldham (1897-1972), the popular daughter of Major Lemuel and Lida Oldham, and believed he would some day marry her. However, Estelle dated other boys during their romance, and one of them, Cornell Franklin,
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