O’Henry

O total heat a ample American printr was born and grew up in North Carolina. O heat content was just a pen name. His real name is William Sydney hall porter. After growing up in North Carolina he locomote to Texas. His father was a doctor named Dr. Algemon Sidney ostiarius his mothers name was bloody shame Jane Virginia Swaim Porter. When Oenthalpy was ab bring out 3 geezerhood old his mother died of tuberculosis. O total heat had to move in with his grandmother. O henry loved to read as a child. Who knew this would be the beginning of a great writer.After OHenry moved in with his grandmother he went to middle and high school. His fathers sister tutored him. After he undefiled high school he went to dally for his uncle at his drug store. By the succession he was nineteen he was a licensed pharmacist. He would excessively cartoon people that came in to the drugstore for entertainment.OHenry always had a persistent cough so he sen eonnt if he moved to Texas it would get b etter. He went to work on a sheep drovers ranch, doing e very(prenominal)thing from ball upsitting, cook, and ranch hand. He even-tempered read all the time. He also played and sang all the time at social gatherings where he met Athol Estes. Her family was rich and didnt approve of OHenry so they eloped. They afterward had a baby boy who didnt live yen and then a year after had a daughter named Marg art Worth Porter around 1889.He became a draftsman who drew maps for the Texas land office. But he also was writing and his wife promote him to write. He eventually went to work for the brim but he also was works on his writing. He did not lionise his books well and the depository financial institution and he was criminate of embezzling money from the bank. He lost his military control but thither charges over against him at the time. He and his family moved to Houston and he started working for the Post. The bank did finally charge OHenry for embezzlement and as soon as he m ade bail he moved to New Orleans and later to Honduras. He wrote many short stories there but he missed his family. He was going to send for his wife to flummox but erect out she was very ill with tuberculosis and was dying. He came congest to Texas and surrendered. He was locked up but his father-in-law bailed him out to be with his daughter.OHenrys wife died in 1897. He was found guilty of embezzlement and was sentenced to five years in prison. While OHenry was in prison he wrote fourteen stories that were published. A friend of his would pass his stories on to publishers who had no idea that the writer was in prison. After 3 years of trustworthy behavior in prison OHenry was released and he was able to be with his eleven year old daughter. In 1902 he and Margaret moved to New York where he did a lot of his great writing. He wrote all the time over three hundred stories while in New York. He eventually married someone from his childishness from North Carolina named Sarah Col eman.He continued to write but OHenry was a heavy drinker and his health failed and he died of June 5, 1910, of cirrhosis of the liver. He was buried in Ashville North Carolina. OHenry was a very well liked writer. He was known for his different surprise endings to his stories. literary works like The Gift of Magi The Last leaf and The Ransom of Red Chief are read over and over again my adults as well as students today.