On September 1862, 1 1, O'Henry was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA. He worked as a bank clerk and pharmacist. 1In February, 896, O 'Henry was imprisoned for misappropriating public funds and then fled to Honduras. 1898 went to prison again, during which he began to publish his works. From 65438 to 0902, O'Henry moved to new york and became a professional writer. 19 10 On June 5th, O Henry died of liver cirrhosis in new york, USA. O Henry, Chekhov and Mo Bosang are called the three greatest short story writers in the world. He was praised by critics as a Manhattan Prize essayist and the father of modern American short stories. His works have the reputation of "encyclopedia of American life".
Personality experience
On September 1862, 1 1, O'Henry was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA. His original name was William Sydney Porter.
1865, when O 'Henry was 3 years old, his mother died of tuberculosis. In the same year, he and his father moved to his grandmother's house, and he and his brother were sent to a private school run by their cousins. He was raised by his grandmother and aunt, which inspired his love for literature.
1876, O'Henry graduated from his aunt's private school. Then I went to high school, but I was forced to drop out of school at 1877 and worked as an apprentice in my uncle's pharmacy for five years. As a teenager, O'Henry liked painting and was very talented. He wanted to be a painter when he was young.
1882 In March, a doctor named James K Hall in Greensboro saw that O'Henry was in poor health, so he took him to a sheep farm in Lasalle County, Texas. When O'Henry went to the western ranch and lived there for two years, he fell in love with life there. Sometimes he helps as a shepherd, cook and nanny, and he also studied Spanish and German with some immigrants for a while.
1884, O'Henry came to Austin, lived in a hometown home, and found a job in Austin. O Henry worked as a singer, a dramatic actor, a pharmacist, a draftsman, a reporter and a cashier, and changed his poor living conditions. Life in the west inspired his humorous cells and became an important material for his later short stories. At the age of 2 1, he changed his ambition and wanted to be a writer.
1887, O. Henry married assor estes and published his works 20 years later in the same year.
189 1 year, O'Henry came to Austin first national bank as a cashier.
1894, O'Henry bought a weekly magazine in Austin for $250 and renamed it Detroit Free Press and Reality, making it a humorous magazine. He is both an editor and a publisher, writing articles and drawing by himself. In June+10 of the same year, the inspector of the Federal Bank found that there was something wrong with O'Henry's account, so he had to resign.
1in April, 895, a year after editing Rolling Stone, the magazine completely closed down, and O'Henry returned it to its original owner. Then, they moved to Houston, and O'Henry was transferred to Rolling Stone as a reporter and columnist.
1In February, 896, O Henry was accused of misappropriating public funds, summoned for trial and temporarily detained. His father-in-law bailed him out. At first, O'Henry's condition was not serious, but he fled to New Orleans the day before his arraignment, and then went to Honduran. He stayed in a hotel in Tegucigalpa for several months. The Spanish he learned in his early years helped him a lot. He started writing novels in Honduras, Houston Post.
1897 In February, O'Henry learned that his wife with tuberculosis was dying, so he rushed back to Austin. He was arrested immediately after returning to China, but was quickly released on bail by his father-in-law. On July 25th, his wife assor Porter died of tuberculosis.
In February 1898, O 'Henry was found guilty and sentenced to five years' imprisonment. On March 25th, he began to serve his sentence in the federal prison in Columbus, Ohio. While serving his sentence, O'Henry became a pharmacist in the prison. At the same time, in order to maintain his daughter's life and education, he began to write short stories seriously. In the same year, O 'Henry changed his name from William Sydney Potter to William Sydney Potter.
199965438+In February, he published the short story "Macclure" in the Christmas special issue of Cabbage and the King magazine under the pseudonym "O Henry". He sent the novel to his friend in New Orleans, who forwarded it to the magazine. Since then, his pen name has attracted the attention of readers.
190 1, after serving three years and three months, O'Henry was released early because of his good behavior in prison. On July 24th, he was reunited with his daughter in Pittsburgh.
From 65438 to 0902, O'Henry moved to new york and became a professional writer, writing hundreds of excellent short stories. In new york, due to the publication of a large number of excellent works, he gained fame and fortune, and sometimes he was interviewed by reporters. But he not only squandered money, but also gambled, and caught his father's bad habit of drinking. The fatigue of writing and the excessive life have seriously damaged his health.
1904, O'Henry published the only novel in his life, The Whistling Dick's Christmas Socks, which is a loosely structured political satire and sometimes regarded as a collection of short stories.
1906, O. Henry published a collection of short stories: Chinese Cabbage and the King.
From 65438 to 0908, he divorced his second wife, Sarah Lin Desai Coleman. His financial situation also began to be bad. In order to relieve the pressure of life, he had to write novels at a fast speed in exchange for the manuscript fee, which also led to the uneven quality of his works. He often drinks and gambles six days a week. On the seventh day, he spent a day writing a short story and then submitted it to a magazine for publication. In the same year, he published a collection of 4 million short stories and The Voice of the City.
1909, O'Henry published the last page of a collection of short stories.
19 10, O'Henry created the road of destiny. On June 3rd, O'Henry fell ill while writing his last short story "The Ransom of the Red Mao Leader". On June 5th, O Henry died of liver cirrhosis. His funeral was held in new york and buried in Ashville, North Carolina.