O. Henry House Museum (San Antonio) at the corner of Dolorosa and Laredo Street in Downtown San Antonio. It re-opened as a museum in 1999. While living here, Porter wrote several short stories set in San Antonio. These included "Fog in Santone", "The Higher Abdication", and "Hygeia at the Solito". O. Henry House Museum (San Antonio) The O. Henry House Museum is a historic house museum located in San Antonio, Texas. It is named for the American writer, William Sydney Porter, better known as O. Henry who lived in the house in 1885. The O. Henry House museum was initially built by John Kush, a German
Dorothy Porter Dorothy Porter Dorothy Featherstone Porter (26 March 1954 – 10 December 2008) was an Australian poet. Porter was born in Sydney. Her father was barrister Chester Porter and her mother, Jean, was a high school chemistry teacher. Porter attended the Queenwood School for Girls. She graduated from the University of Sydney in 1975 with a Bachelor of Arts majoring in English and History. Porter's awards include The Age Book of the Year for poetry, the National Book Council Award for "The Monkey's Mask" and the FAW Christopher Brennan Award for poetry. Two of her verse novels were shortlisted for the