The Literary Lounger: O. Henry's Friend
... ?The Literary Lounger. By Keble Howard. O. Henry's Friend. Everybody knows by this time that O. Henry, the American short- story writer, spent a certain portion of his life in prison, and that this experience, which does not come the way of every writer, proved of great benefit to him in his subsequent literary career. Not onlv did he get many of his plots from the stories he heard in the ...