Background
Steger, Harry Peyton was born on March 2, 1883 in Moscow, Tennessee, United States. Son of Thomas Peyton and Alice (Scales) Steger.
Steger, Harry Peyton was born on March 2, 1883 in Moscow, Tennessee, United States. Son of Thomas Peyton and Alice (Scales) Steger.
University of Texas, Bachelor of Arts, 1902, Master of Arts, 1904. Heidelberg and Bonn, Germany, 1905. Rhodes scholar, Balliol College, Oxford, England, 1905-1906.
Editor “Short Stories” (magazine), since 1908. Literature adviser Doubleday, Page & Company, since 1911. Literature executor of O. Henry.
Author: O. Henry, A Biographical Collection, 1912. Up From College, 1912. Home: Freeport, Long Island, New York Deceased.
Married Dorothy Jane McCormick, June 9, 1910.