O’Henry:
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Lived from 1862-1910
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Master of surprise endings
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An ironic or coincidental twist plot is typical
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Real name is William Sydney Porter
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Born in Greensboro, North Carolina
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His mother died when he was 3
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Started a humorous weekly in “The Rolling
Stone”-1884
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Went to prison for “embezzling money”
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While in prison- began to write short stories to
earn money to support his daughter
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Most likely got his pen name while in prison
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Wrote a lot about the life in New York
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When he died, he suffered with: alcoholism,
illnesses, and finical problems
Saki:
- Real name: Hector Hugh Munro
- Born on December 18, 1870
- Died November 14, 1916
- Died by getting shot in World War 1
- His last words were telling someone to put out a cigarette
- First was book a historical book called "Rise of the Russian Empire"
- Career of writing began as a journalist
- Munro's mother died when he was young- raised by an aunt
- 1902- his collection of short stories, "Not-so-Stories" came out
- Reginland and Clovis are two of his most famous charcters
Edgar Allen Poe:
- Baltimore Icon
- Burried in Baltimore
- One of his most famous stories is "The Raven"
- Master of eary and bizzar short stories
- Born January 19, 1809, in Boston
- Son of an English-born actreess
- The Raven was written in 1845
- Lived with John Allen after his mother died
- He lived in Scotland and England
- Died October 7, 1849
William Faulkner
- Grew up in Mississippi
- Lived 1897-1962
- Was in Canadian and British Air Force
- worked on novels and stories on a farm in Oxford
- Published "The Hamlet" in 1940
- "The Reivers" was his last and most humorous novel before he passed away
- A lot of his novels include desctruction of some kind
- It took him 17 years to publish "The Town"
- Grew up a southern life- this is noticable in his stories
- He studied at University of Mississippi
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