Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million
Author: first_name: O.
last_name: Henry
Language: English
Year: 1908

O. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter (1862-1910). His short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, characterization and the clever use of twist endings.  Indeed, O. Henry is often credited with defining the short story as a literary art form.  Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million, is a collection of twenty-three short stories that was first published in 1908.  The setting is New York City in the first decade of the 1900’s (the Four Million in the s