Getting to Know O'Henry

• William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) was born in Greensboro, North Carolina. 
• age of fifteen he left school, and then worked in a drug store and on a Texas ranch.
• In 1884 he started a humorous weeklyThe Rolling Stone. When the weekly failed, he joined the Houston Post as a reporter and columnist.
• In 1897 he was convicted of embezzling money, although there has been much debate over his actual guilt.
• While in prison O. Henry started to write short stories to earn money to support his daughter Margaret.
• After doing three years of the five years sentence, Porter emerged from the prison in 1901 and changed his name to O. Henry.
• O. Henry moved to New York City in 1902 and from December 1903 to January 1906 he wrote a story a week for the New York World, also publishing in other magazines. 
• . Henry's last years were shadowed by alcoholism, ill health, and financial problems. 
• He married Sara Lindsay Coleman in 1907, but the marriage was not happy, and they separated a year later.
•  O. Henry died of cirrhosis of the liver on June 5, 1910, in New York.
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