We all know such prominent American author as O. Henry. It is the pseudonym of William Sydney Porter, who wrote colorful short stories with surprising and ironic twists, coincedences and unexpected endings. He was born on September 11, 1862, in Greensboro, North Carolina. Porter attended school for a short time, then clerked in an uncle's
drugstore. At the age of 20 William Sydney Porter went to Texas, working
first on a ranch and later as a bank teller. Then he married and
began to write freelance sketches. A few years later he founded a
humorous weekly, the Rolling Stone and worked as a columnist. Released from prison in 1902, Porter went to New York, his home and the
setting of most of his fiction for the remainder of his life. The writer pioneered in picturing the lives of lower-class and middle-class New Yorkers. Incapable of integrating a book-length narrative, O. Henry was skilled
in plotting short ones, he wrote in a dry, humorous style. Writing
prodigiously, he went on to become a revered American writer. O. Henry's other popular collections of his stories included The Four Million (1906); Heart of the West and The Trimmed Lamp (both 1907); The Gentle Grafter and The Voice of the City (both 1908); even after O. Henry's death on June 5, 1910, stories continued to be collected: Sixes and Sevens (1911); Rolling Stones (1912); Waifs and Strays (1917); O. Henryana (1920); and O. Henry Encore (1939).
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Mary, I have the same feeling about the New-Yorkers.
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