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Henry, O.
O. Henry was born as William Sidney Porter in Greensboro, North Carolina. He later changed the spelling of his middle name to "Sydney". His father, Algernon Sidney Porter, was a physician. When Porter's mother died of tuberculosis in 1865, father and son went to live with William's grandmother where he was chiefly raised by an aunt due to his father's heavy drinking. As a teenager, he trained at...
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Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett
The Irish author Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, was a major celebrity in the first half of the 20th century. He belonged to one of the oldest dignities in the peerage of Ireland . The family seat, Dunsany Castle, County Meath , goes back to the 12t century and is known as the oldest still occupied building in Ireland. The 18th Baron was something of a Renaissance man....