William Sydney Porter, better known by his pen name O. Henry, was born in 1862 in Greensboro, North Carolina. Growing up he liked to read authors such as Charles Dickens and Sir Walter Scott. Porter worked various jobs such as a clerk, bookkeeper, assistant draftsman, bank teller, and even cartoonist as a side job, along …
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Walt Whitman
Background: Date of Birth: May 31, 1819 Whitman lived in Brooklyn and Long Island between the 1820’s and 1830’s with his family of three. He started out as a printer at age 12, and fell in love with the written word. He was self-taught and learned through reading. When a fire in the printing district …
Fanny Fern
Biography Fanny Fern was born under the name of Sara Payson Willis Parton in 1811. She became widely famous in America for her autobiographical novel Ruth Hall (1854), and for her humorous, satirical, and critical newspaper sketches and columns. She was born into a literary family, as her father was a publisher and her brother N.P. …