Harry Peyton Steger

Harry Peyton Steger was an American writer and editor.

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 amp Co., literary executor of O. Henry, and editor of Short Stories Magazine. He died in New York city of kidney failure.

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