Harry Peyton Steger

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

Harry Peyton Steger
Steger in 1904 (age 22)
Born	(1883-03-02)March 2, 1883 Moscow, Tennessee, U.S.
Died	January 4, 1913(1913-01-04) (aged 29) New York City, New York
Occupation	Editor, writer, professor
Alma mater	University of Texas
Spouse	Dorothy McCormick

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[1] and later went to Johns Hopkins, where he studied Sanskrit.[2] 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. 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

• O. Henry, 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

1. "Chill Airs of Our Men at Oxford," The Literary Digest, October 29, 1910.
2. Jones, Vernon M. "Harry Peyton Steger, Texas, '02," The Scroll of Phi Delta Theta, Vol. XXXVII, 1912-1913.

External links

• Steger, Harry Peyton