About O .Henry

1. About O .Henry

2. About hi m writer: O.Henry O.Henry was a prolific American short-story writer.

3. About the writer William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) was born in Greenboro, North Carolina. In 1862 .

4. In 1884 he started a humorous weekly The Rolling Stone. When the weekly failed, he joined the Houston Post as a reporter and columnist.

5. In 1897 he was convicted of embezzling money, although there has been much debate over his actual guilt. In 1898 he entered a penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio.

6. His first work, "Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking" (1899), appeared in McClure's Magazine. After doing three years of the five years sentence, Porter emerged from the prison in 1901 and changed his name to O. Henry.

7. 1902 He moved to New York City 1903 to1906 he wrote a story a week for the New York World, also publishing in other magazines.

8. 1904. Henry's first collection, Cabbages and Kings appeared. 1906The second, The Four Million, and included his well-known stories "The Gift of the Magi" and "The Furnished Room". 1907 The Trimmed Lamp.

9. The short story found after he died 1907 The Heart Of The West 1910Henry's best known work is "The Ransom of Red Chief", included in the collection Whirligigs.

10. 1911 Sixes And Sevens 1912 Rolling Stones 1917 Waifs And Strays

11. death 1910 Died of cirrhosis of the liver on June 5, O. Henry's last years were shadowed by alcoholism, ill health, and financial problems.

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