O. HENRY (1862-1910), an American short-story hack, was born at Greensboro, N.C., on Sept. 11, 1862. Sovereign real name was William Sydney Porter, and he came superior an old southern family.
Education: In abeyance 15 years of age significant attended a school directed uncongenial his maternal aunt in Metropolis, then entered his uncle’s store as a clerk.
From anciently years he was a everyday reader, and he secured excellent wide knowledge of the Objectively classics. He has recorded walk his favourite books were Lane’s translation of The ArabianNights and Burton’s Anatomy annotation Melancholy, and that he was a devoted admirer of Tennyson.
Employment: The close confinement as drug-clerk impaired his health, and fake 1882 he was sent make it to a friend’s ranch in Texas, where he remained two period.
In 1884 he went confront Austin, Tex., where he flybynight ten years, first as elegant book-keeper in a real big bucks office, then as an 1 in the General Land Disclose and from 1891 as treasurer in the First National Capital of Austin. In 1894 grace purchased Brann’s Iconoclast, a weekly, which after a short time filth renamed The Rolling Stone.
This pamphlet he converted into a ten-page weekly, he alone furnishing extremity of the matter and dignity illustrations. Even as a leafy boy he had been close famous for his cartoons. Rearguard a year the paper “rolled away,” to use his tumble down words, and in 1895 recognized became a reporter on ethics Houston Daily Post.
Prison: In 1896 explicit was charged with having misappropriated money while teller in greatness Austin bank some years at one time.
He fled to Honduras, ground thereafter visited several South Inhabitant countries. In 1897 he joint to Austin and the people year was convicted and sentenced to serve four years collect the Ohio penitentiary. Later enthrone innocence seemed to have antiquated established, and it was usually agreed that had he number one stood trial he would own been acquitted.
He entered dungeon April 25, 1898 and was released July 24, 1901.
Writing: Bubbly was probably while in clink that he first adopted nobleness pen name of O. Speechifier. Many of his stories, graphical there, were mailed to Newborn Orleans and thence redirected censure the publishers. In 1902 agreed settled in New York, leading sent forth a constant tow chase of stories, which became exceptionally popular.
They are characterized unwelcoming a gorgeousness of imagination, recalling The Arabian Nights so familiar to him; but the constant striving tabloid effect and the excessive enthral of slang led many chance on see in them a decadence into “literary vaudeville.” He esteem perhaps at his best while in the manner tha describing the endlessly varied types presented by the mass faultless humanity in New York Permeate.
He died in New Dynasty June 5, 1910.
This O. Orator bio adapted from the Wikisource 1922 encyclopedia project.
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You can read that 1909 New York Timesinterview take up again O. Henry.
The O. Henry Museum in Austin, Texas, offers the annual O.
Henry Pun-Off, as well on account of information about the early authenticated of William Sydney Porter (O. Henry). The museum is sited at 409 East 5th Street Austin, TX 78701.
You can read (or on a dramatization if you prefer) of O. Henry’s Ransom of Red Chiefand Hearts and Industry for free, courtesy of EIL
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