Harry Peyton Steger

American writer
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroAmerican writer
PlacesUnited States of America
wasWriter
Work fieldLiterature
Gender
Male
Birth2 March 1883, Moscow, Fayette County, Tennessee, U.S.A.
Death4 January 1913New York City, New York, U.S.A. (aged 29 years)
Star signPisces
The details

Biography

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

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

Miscellany

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

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