The complete online text of The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry.

The American short-story writer William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), who wrote under the pseudonym O. Henry, pioneered in picturing the lives of lower-class and middle-class New Yorkers. William Sydney Porter was born in Greensboro, N.C., on Sept. 11, 1862...

Perhaps the reputation of no other American writer has undergone a more rapid and drastic reversal than that of William Sydney Porter. Writing under the pseudonym O. Henry during the first decade of the twentieth century, Porter commanded a readership in...

When William Sydney Porter had his first book, Cabbages and Kings (1904), published he had only six more years to live. But, with his identity hidden beneath the legendary pen name O. Henry, the fame of his short stories was already firmly established in...

Robert Barnett made his workers switch the type of paper they used to one that saved $1.38 per ream. Instead of taking his staffs advice to get a new lamp for his desk, he took one from a colleague who didn't need it. ...

One internal candidate and four outside applicants are finalists for the chancellor position at the University of Wisconsin- Whitewater, officials announced Monday. Richard Telfer, the interim chancellor at UW-Whitewater and formerly the school's provost, is vying for the top job against four administrators...