O. Henry
William Sydney Porter was born in Greensboro, North Carolina in September of 1862. His parents were Dr. Algernon Sydney and Mary Jane Porter. Williams mother died when he was at the young age of three. After the death of his mother, his father made the decision to move himself along with his two young sons into the home of their grandmother and aunt Lina. William was later tutored throughout his young life by his aunt Lina. At the age of 17 William began working in his uncles drug store. After a year of working as a pharmacist he moved to Texas and stayed on the ranch of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hall. While living in Texas he began writing humorous comic strips. After moving to Austin he met and married Athol Estes. They later had a son who passed away after birth. Soon after they gave birth to a daughter named Margaret. Later that year Athol became seriously ill (Bloom, Harold 11). William lost his recent job and later got a job at the First National Bank of Austin. While working at the bank he started publication of The Rolling Stone, a humor weekly. A year later it went out of print. That same year he was fired and accused of embezzlement by the bank. In February of 1896 he was arrested in Houston. Soon he fled to New Orleans; f
O. Henry has written many stories such as Cabbages and Kings a collaboration of many stories put together to make a whole. Soon after his first book came many more such as The Four Million, which was a collection of his famous stories of New York (Bloom Harold 12). He later published a volume called The Heart of the West, which includes “The Reformation of Calliope,” “The Caballero’s Way,” and “The Hiding of Black Bill.” These stories and many more made him a well known writer (Lone Star Junction 2).
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