O. Henry by Smith, C. Alphonso; Warner Berthoff -Intro - 1991

New York Usa: Chelsea House Pub. As New 1991. Softcover. Marfree, acidfree fresh illus prtg; no names, not marked-in, underscored, clearance or discard. Mails from NYC usually within 12 hours. ; American Men and Women of Letters Ser. ; 258 pages; \n Originally published in 1916, this was the first full-length biography of O. Henry, based upon original letters and sources. \nAbout the Author\nC. Alphonso Smith (1864-1924) was born and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina, O. Henry's hometown, and knew the writer as a fellow townsman as well as a subject for literary biography. The author of several works on philology and poetics, and of more popular guides such as "What Can Literature Do for Me? , " Smith was Poe Professor of English at the University of Virginia and spent his last years as head of the English Department at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis. .