Short Stories of O. Henry Arthur Donovan When the cloud moved in

When the cloud moved in 2012

The record becomes devastatingly clear: the fighting in the West was the cruelest and most useless of the whole affair

Bruce M Metzger

Grady Booch

or adventuring in the great outdoors

Short Stories of O. Henry Arthur Donovan When the cloud moved inWilliam Sydney Porter (O. Henry) was born in Greensboro, North Carolina. His father, Algernon Sidney Porter, was a physician. When William was three, his mother died, and he was raised by his paternal grandmother and aunt. William was an avid reader, but at the age of fifteen he left school, and then worked in a drug store and on a Texas ranch. He moved to Houston, where he had a number of jobs, including that of bank clerk. After moving to Austin,