"it is a profile of Brann with a bullet hole in it. In the early 1890s, Brann, who had only three years of formal education, owned and published an Austin, Texas newspaper. He eventually sold the Austin ""Iconoclast"" to William Sydney Porter, better known as O. Henry. He repurchased it from Porter to operate it out of Waco, Texas until the time of his assassination. Following the assassination, Brann's wife moved the publication to Chicago, but still covered Texas issues. William Cowper Brann William Cowper Brann (January 4, 1855 – April 1, 1898) was an American journalist known as Brann"
"Hal Porter Harold Edward (Hal) Porter (16 February 1911 – 29 September 1984) was an Australian novelist, playwright, poet and short-story writer. Porter was born in Albert Park, Victoria, grew up in Bairnsdale, Victoria and worked as a journalist, teacher and librarian. A car accident just before the outbreak of war prevented him from serving in World War II. His first stories were published in 1942 and by the 1960s he was writing full-time. His 1963 memoir, ""The Watcher on the Cast Iron Balcony"", is regarded as an Australian masterpiece. His other works were less successful. The literary critic Laurie"
"Sylvia Porter Sylvia Field Porter (June 18, 1913 – June 5, 1991) was an American economist, journalist and author. At the height of her career, her readership was greater than 40 million people. Porter was born in Patchogue, New York, on Long Island as Sylvia Field Feldman to Louis and Rose Maisel Feldman. Originally majoring in English literature, she switched to economics and finance given the impact of the Stock Market Crash of 1929. It has been suggested that her fiancé, bank employee Reed Porter, was relying upon Sylvia to explain the complications of the worldwide financial panic. They were"
"mother was the wardrobe mistress and secretary for the renowned entertainer, Sophie Tucker. As a young boy in Ms. Tucker's home, Porter first met many of the stars he would later write about—Marilyn Monroe, Ronald Reagan, Victor Mature, Richard Widmark, Frank Sinatra, and Elizabeth Taylor, plus an array of other stars. In 1958, he joined ""The Miami Herald"" as an entertainment writer, book reviewer, and columnist. Later, he was appointed Bureau Chief of The Miami Herald in Key West, where he was a frequent visitor to Havana, writing about the growing tensions between the United States and Cuba. Once, he"
"of the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Psychiatrists. A plaque for the memory of Porter was unveiled by the Mayor of Lewisham in a ceremony that took place on Thursday 5 June at 13 Camplin Street, New Cross Gate, London. Starting with the publishing of his PhD thesis, as ""The Making of Geology"" in 1977, Porter wrote or edited over 100 books, an academic output that was, and is, considered remarkable. He is so prolific that the poet Michael Hofmann has called him ""a one-man book factory."" He is particularly notable for his work in the"
"Darwin Porter Darwin Porter (born September 13, 1937, in Greensboro, North Carolina) is America's leading travel writer, producing numerous titles, mostly for the Frommer Guidebook series, over a 50-year career span. In the 21st century, he became a pop culture journalist-historian, the leading celebrity biographer in America in terms of volume of works produced. Porter was the son of Hazel Lee Phillips, a fashion designer, and Paul Suggs, an attorney. His stepfather, Numie Rowan Porter, adopted him and changed his last name. He grew up in Western North Carolina, moving to Miami Beach when he was ten years old. His"
"Compared,"" 1845, and ""The Heavenly Union, or New Jerusalem on Earth"" 1850. On May 19, 1844, he married Miss Mary Frances, daughter of Hon. Paul Wentworth, of New Hampshire. He had several children, the eldest of whom, a daughter, died in 1850. He died in Roxbury, Massachusetts. May 26, 1861, aged 43. William Henry Porter (writer) William Henry Porter (Sept 19, 1817-May 26, 1861) was an American minister and author. He was born in Rye, New Hampshire, Sept 19, 1817, and was one of the eighteen children of Rev Huntington Porter, formerly pastor of the church in that place. After"
"wrote mainly children's literature, adventure stories, and romance fiction. Her most famous novel is ""Pollyanna"" (1913), followed by a sequel, ""Pollyanna Grows Up"" (1915). Her adult novels include ""The Turn of the Tide"" (1908), ""The Road to Understanding"" (1917), ""Oh Money! Money!"" (1918), ""Dawn"" (1919), ""Keith's Dark Tower"" (1919), ""Mary Marie"" (1920) and ""Sister Sue"" (1921); her short-story collections include ""Across the Years"" (c. 1919), ""Money, Love and Kate"" (1923), and ""Little Pardner"" (1926). Porter achieved considerable commercial success: ""Pollyanna"" ranked eighth among best-selling novels in the United States during 1913, second during 1914, and fourth during 1915 (with 47"
"participant's combined score of 4–40. This change was enacted to prevent any one judge from having the ability to disqualify a punster by giving a much lower score than the other judges. A separate award is also given yearly for the ""Most Viable Punster"", a title awarded by votes from each year's participants and given in honor of late punster George McClughan. The O. Henry Pun-Off was inspired by the writings of William Sydney Porter who, while living in Austin, Texas, in the late 1800s, began using the pen name O. Henry. By the time of his death in 1910,"
"twists were adored by his readers but often panned by critics. Porter married again in 1907 to childhood sweetheart Sarah (Sallie) Lindsey Coleman, whom he met again after revisiting his native state of North Carolina. Sarah Lindsey Coleman was herself a writer and wrote a romanticized and fictionalized version of their correspondence and courtship in her novella ""Wind of Destiny"". Porter was a heavy drinker, and by 1908, his markedly deteriorating health affected his writing. In 1909, Sarah left him, and he died on June 5, 1910, of cirrhosis of the liver, complications of diabetes, and an enlarged heart. After"
"Australian"", 15–16 January 1994, Review 3. Mary Lord: ""Hal Porter: Man of Many Parts"" (Random House, Sydney, 1993) Noel Rowe: '""No one but I will know"": Hal Porter's Honesty', in ""Australian Humanities Review"", Issue 41, February 2007 Hal Porter Harold Edward (Hal) Porter (16 February 1911 – 29 September 1984) was an Australian novelist, playwright, poet and short-story writer. Porter was born in Albert Park, Victoria, grew up in Bairnsdale, Victoria and worked as a journalist, teacher and librarian. A car accident just before the outbreak of war prevented him from serving in World War II. His first stories were"
"William T. Porter William Trotter Porter (December 24, 1809 – July 19, 1858) was an American journalist and newspaper editor who founded an early American newspaper devoted to sports. After working at a number of small newspapers, Porter moved to New York City in the 1830s. After employment at a newspaper in the city, he founded the ""Spirit of the Times"", a newspaper modeled on a London paper called ""Bell's Life in London"". The ""Spirit"", which went through a number of names and incarnations over the years, was devoted to sports and other recreational pursuits. One of Porter's main interests"
"William Plomer William Charles Franklyn Plomer CBE (he pronounced the surname as ""ploomer"") (10 December 1903 – 21 September 1973) was a South African and British author, known as a novelist, poet and literary editor. Self-described as an ""Anglo-African-Asian"", Plomer was educated mostly in the United Kingdom. He became famous in the Union of South Africa with his first novel, ""Turbott Wolfe"", which had inter-racial love and marriage as a theme. He was co-founder of the short-lived literary magazine ""Voorslag"" (""Whiplash"") with two other South African rebels, Roy Campbell and Laurens van der Post; it promoted a racially equal South"
"Jane Porter Jane Porter (17 January 1776 – 24 May 1850) was an English historical novelist, dramatist and literary figure. Her work ""The Scottish Chiefs"" is seen as one of the earliest historical novels and remains popular among children in Scotland. Jane Porter was born in Durham as the third of the five children of William Porter and Jane ""née"" Blenkinsop. Tall and beautiful as she grew up, Jane Porter's grave air earned her the nickname ""La Penserosa"" (""the pensive girl""). After her father's death, her family moved to Edinburgh, where Sir Walter Scott was a regular visitor. Some time"
"out in 1860, His sister Ann emigrated to Adelaide on the ""Candahar"" in 1851. A brother, Samuel and sister, Elizabeth (1837–1925) are recorded as travelling on the same ship, but later settled in Newcastle upon Tyne. Elizabeth married a tailor, Alfred John Prince Porter, and had ten children. Her brother Samuel was also a tailor. After his parents' deaths he decided to follow his five brothers to South Australia. He left England in 1868, sailing in the ""South Australian"" on her maiden voyage, taking three months. After working for a time on Canowie Station for his brother Thomas, he went"
"Henry Porter (playwright) Henry Porter (died June 1599) was an English dramatist who is known for one surviving play, ""The Two Angry Women of Abington"", and for the manner of his death; he was stabbed by another playwright. Very little is known about Henry Porter's life beyond the entries in the diary of Philip Henslowe the theatre manager. He is described as a ""gentleman"" and a ""poor scholar"", and as the play is set in Abingdon, near Oxford, and shows knowledge of the area around Oxford it is assumed he studied there. Attempts to plausibly connect him with the records"
"74th year, at Catania, whither he had repaired for the sake of his health"". William Simpson Potter William Simpson Potter (21 January 1805 – 16 January 1879) was a 19th-century English author. From available information, Potter was a friend of Henry Spencer Ashbee, a merchant, bibliographer, bibliophile, authority on the life and works of Cervantes, and collector of erotic materials. Ashbee describes Potter as a ""shrewd business man, the ardent collector, and the enthusiastic traveller"". According to the bibliography-catalogue, ""British Museum General Catalogue of Printed Books,"" Potter is author of two books of letters describing the Prince of Wales' visit"
"often quoted, it is a curious fact, and one on the whole redounding to the credit of humanity, that the line is never quoted in the sense in which Ulysses uses it. Makes the Whole World Kin ""Makes the Whole World Kin"" is a short story written by O. Henry (a pen name for William Sydney Porter), allegedly at Pete's Tavern on Irving Place in New York City. The story starts with a young thief walking through a neighbourhood, scouting for his next house. The thief is described as an ordinary man, with no extreme tendencies. Once he finds a"
"possessing a ""strong character, resourceful mind, generous heart, broad vision, quick imagination, and tireless industry"". Leo Port Leo Weiser Port (7 September 192226 August 1978) was an Australian businessman, engineer, television personality, and Lord Mayor of Sydney from 1975 till his sudden death in 1978. Leo Weiser Rapoport was born in Kraków, Poland in 1922 to Jewish parents. His family moved to Berlin in 1928 and fled to Prague in 1939, reaching Sydney later that year. At that time his father and brother changed their surname to ""Port"", and Leo did likewise. Schooled at Sydney Boys High School, he became"
"Katherine Anne Porter Katherine Anne Porter (May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980) was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist. Her 1962 novel ""Ship of Fools"" was the best-selling novel in America that year, but her short stories received much more critical acclaim. She is known for her penetrating insight; her work deals with dark themes such as betrayal, death and the origin of human evil. Katherine Anne Porter was born in Indian Creek, Texas as Callie Russel Porter to Harrison Boone Porter and Mary Alice (Jones) Porter. Her family tree can be traced back"
"William Henry Porter (writer) William Henry Porter (Sept 19, 1817-May 26, 1861) was an American minister and author. He was born in Rye, New Hampshire, Sept 19, 1817, and was one of the eighteen children of Rev Huntington Porter, formerly pastor of the church in that place. After a preliminary course of study in Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, he entered Yale College in 1837, with his twin brother, Charles Henry Porter, who died after completing his Sophomore year. He graduated in 1841. He studied Theology one year in the Union Theological Seminary in New York City, one year in the"
"to Australia with most of their children in October 1839. Their youngest child, Frederick Charles Porter, became an explorer and miner in the Victorian goldfields. The migration may also have been influenced by his cousin, Captain William Field Porter (born, 1784), who had financed and led what was to be an unsuccessful party of settlers to Port Lincoln in two ships, nine months earlier. He helped his cousin set up one of the first shipping services operating out of Port Lincoln and Port Adelaide to Australian and New Zealand ports. Upon arrival, Porter settled in Albert Town (now known as"
"Charlotte Porter Charlotte Endymion Porter (Jan. 6, 1857 – Jan. 16, 1942) was an American poet, translator, and literary critic and the cofounder and coeditor of the journal ""Poet Lore"". As the editor or coeditor of editions of the complete works of William Shakespeare, Robert Browning, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and as a translator of major writers from around the world for ""Poet Lore"", she was influential in shaping the American literary taste of her day. Helen Charlotte Porter was born in Towanda, Pennsylvania, in 1857, one of three children of Henry Clinton Porter, a physician, and Elisa Eleanor (Betts)"
"In 1965, Prattis retired from the ""Courier"" after John H. Sengstacke purchased the ailing paper. Some famous contributors to the ""Courier"" were Joel Augustus Rogers, who worked as a journalist for the ""Courier"" in the 1920s, and Sam Milai, editorial cartoonist for the ""Courier"" for 33 years. The ""Courier"" was the first to spot the talent of a young William Gardner Smith, who was hired by the ""Courier"" while still in high school. This was in 1943, some years before he gained fame as an expatriate novelist and journalist living in France. Trezzvant Anderson covered the early years of the"
"of that experience is transformed into 'a sort of homage' to a now-vanished world. Title characters from Berry's earlier Port William volumes — Jayber Crow, Old Jack, Hannah Coulter — appear here in affectionate cameos as the adult Andy, echoing Wordsworth, observes that 'in my memory, all who were there ... seem now to be gathered into a love that is at once a boy's and an aging man's.'"" Wendell Berry Wendell Erdman Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. He is an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers,"
"promote the interests of virtue, none of these errors should be remembered in his epitaph."" Samuel Jackson Pratt Samuel Jackson Pratt (25 December 1749 – 4 October 1814) was a prolific English poet, dramatist and novelist, writing under the pseudonym of ""Courtney Melmoth"" as well as under his own name. He authored around 40 publications between 1770 and 1810, some of which are still published today, and is probably best remembered as the author of ""Emma Corbett: or the Miseries of Civil War,"" (1780) and the poem ""Sympathy"" (1788). Although his reputation was tainted by scandal during his lifetime, he"
"Edwin S. Porter Edwin Stanton Porter (April 21, 1870 – April 30, 1941) was an American film pioneer, most famous as a producer, director, studio manager and cinematographer with the Edison Manufacturing Company and the Famous Players Film Company. Of over 250 films created by Porter, his most important include ""Jack and the Beanstalk"" (1902), ""Life of an American Fireman"" (1903), ""The Great Train Robbery"" (1903), ""The Kleptomaniac"" (1905), ""Life of a Cowboy"" (1906), ""Rescued from an Eagle's Nest"" (1908), and ""The Prisoner of Zenda"" (1913) . Porter was born and raised in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, to Thomas Richard Porter, a"
"good sword-and-buckler man will be spitted like a cat or a coney"". The irony would be greater still if the author of this was the same Henry Porter granted a ""Pardon de se defendendo."" There are parallels between the deaths of Henry Porter and his fellow playwright Christopher Marlowe: both were stabbed to death south of the Thames in London, Marlowe in Deptford in 1593, and Porter in Southwark in 1599; both deaths were explicated in modern times by Leslie Hotson. Henry Porter (playwright) Henry Porter (died June 1599) was an English dramatist who is known for one surviving play,"
"He is buried in a solitary grave on the Aberfeldy River near Walhalla. 'Porters Creek' is named after him near the site of his inn. It starts near Williamson Spur at an elevation of 895m and ends when it joins the Glenmaggie River. Frederick Charles Porter Frederick Charles Porter (1832–1869) was an Australian miner and explorer of the Gippsland region of Victoria. His exploration work in early 1862 was critical in helping open up the Jordan goldfields. Frederick Porter (known as 'Fred') was born in 1832 in Queenborough, Kent, England. He migrated to Australia as a child with his family,"
"Sydney James Bounds Sydney James Bounds (4 November 1920 – 24 November 2006) was an English author. He wrote as Sydney J. Bounds and S. J. Bounds, as well as under the pen names Clifford Wallace, James Marshall, Earl Ellison and Rex Marlowe. He wrote over forty novels and hundreds of short stories, many published under pseudonyms or anonymously. He was best known for his science fiction, but also wrote horror, Westerns, mysteries and juveniles. Bounds' debut professional sale under his own name appears in 1946 in the first issue of Outlands magazine, the publication of which left Bounds feeling"
"representing the Civic Reform Association. He served as Lord Mayor between 1975 and 1978. Port was an advocate of civic design, and was partly responsible for the pedestrianisation of Martin Place and Sydney Square. He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the New Year's Honours of 1974. Port was a panelist on the popular ABC television program ""The Inventors"". Port died in 1978 of myocardial infarction, survived by his wife, daughter and three sons. At Port's funeral, Rabbi Raymond Apple of the Great Synagogue, Sydney, described Port as a person with ""remarkable capacities"","
"sergeant. In 1925, Napier joined The Sydney Morning Herald. He subsequently became assistant editor of The Sydney Mail and leader-writer of the Sydney Morning Herald where in 1931 he compiled, with P S Allen, ""A Century of Journalism: The Sydney Morning Herald and Its Record of Australian Life 1831-1931"". He contributed prose and verse to numerous English and Australian journals and newspapers, and published a collection of essays, ""The Magic Carpet"" in 1932. Sydney Elliott Napier Sydney Napier Elliott (25 December 1870 – 3 May 1940) was an Australian writer and poet. Napier was born in Sydney, New South Wales"
"Joyce Porter Joyce Porter (March 28, 1924 – December 9, 1990) was an English crime fiction author. Porter created the characters of ""Eddie Brown"", ""Constance Ethel Morrison Burke"", and ""Wilfred Dover"". In DCI Wilfred Dover and his assistant Sergeant MacGregor, she created a template later used successfully, especially by Reginald Hill, in straight 'whodunnits', but Porter's novels, while intricately plotted, were always played for laughs. Dover was obese, lazy, unhygienic (the only man in the Metropolitan Police Service with underarm dandruff) and bordering on corrupt. MacGregor was keen, clean and ferociously ambitious. However, on the rare occasions he was able"