Harry Peyton Steger (2 March 1883 – 4 January 1913) was an American writer and editor.
Career overview
Steger was born in Moscow, Tennessee, in 1883. After attending public schools there he entered the
University of Texas. Following his graduation, he attended the
Balliol College, Oxford
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as a
Rhodes Scholar
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and later went to Johns Hopkins, where he studied Sanskrit.
[Jones, Vernon M]
"Harry Peyton Steger, Texas, '02,"
''The Scroll of Phi Delta Theta'', Vol. XXXVII, 1912-1913.
Harry Steger worked as a journalist both in
England and in America. He was also a literary adviser to Doubleday, Page & Co., literary executor of
O. Henry
William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910), better known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer known primarily for his short stories, though he also wrote poetry and non-fiction. His works include "The Gift of the M ...
, and editor of ''Short Stories Magazine''.
He died in New York city of kidney failure. He is buried in Willow Wild Cemetery in Bonham, Fannin County, Texas.
Works
"Photographing the Cowboy as he Disappears,"''The World's Work'', Vol. XVII, 1909.
"O. Henry: Who he is and How he Works,"''The World's Work'', Vol. XVIII, 1909.
''The Letters of Harry Peyton Steger'' 1899-1912, Published by the Ex-Students' Association of the University of Texas, 1915.
Miscellany
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O. Henry
William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910), better known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer known primarily for his short stories, though he also wrote poetry and non-fiction. His works include "The Gift of the M ...
''Rolling Stones'' with an Introduction by Harry Peyton Steger, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913.
Further reading
* Johnson, Frank W. (1914). ''A History of Texas and Texans'', 5 Vols., (ed.) E. C. Barker and E. W. Winkler. Chicago and New York: American Historical Society.
References
External links
Steger, Harry Peyton
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1883 births
1913 deaths
People from Fayette County, Tennessee
20th-century American male writers