Other writers interested in regional differences and dialect were George W . Cable, Thomas Nelson Page, Joel Chandler Harris, Mary Noailles Murfree ( Charles Egbert Craddock ), Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary E . Wilkins Freeman, Henry Cuyler Bunner, and William Sydney Porter ( O . Henry ).
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William Trevor writes in the introduction to " The World of O . Henry : Roads of Destiny and Other Stories " ( Hodder & Stoughton, 1973 ) that " there was a prison guard named Orrin Henry " in the Ohio State Penitentiary " whom William Sydney Porter . . . immortalised as O . Henry ".
