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Harry Peyton Steger

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Nationality
  
American

Name
  
Harry Steger

Spouse
  
Dorothy McCormick

Harry Peyton Steger
Born
  
March 2, 1883 Moscow, Tennessee (
1883-03-02
)

Occupation
  
Editor, writer, professor

Died
  
January 4, 1913, New York City, New York, United States

Alma mater
  
University of Texas at Austin

Harry Peyton Steger (2 March 1883 – 4 January 1913) was an American writer and editor.

Contents

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 as a Rhodes Scholar and later went to Johns Hopkins, where he studied Sanskrit. 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, and editor of Short Stories Magazine. He died in New York city of kidney failure.

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

  • O. Henry, Rolling Stones, with an Introduction by Harry Peyton Steger, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913.

    • References

    Harry Peyton Steger Wikipedia
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