【2017年整理】欧亨与利介绍及其作品.ppt

O. Henry;Pen name : O.HenryAnother pen name :Olivier HenryHis primitive name : Williams Sydney Porter 原名：威廉姆斯·西德尼·波特 ;O. Henry (1862-1910) He was a prolific American short-story writer, a master of surprise endings, who wrote about the life of ordinary people in New York City. Henry was known as a good end, it was called “O? Henry-end”. Although some critics were not so enthusiastic about his work, the public loved it. He was called Prose Laureate of Manhattan and Father of short stories. He is one of three short story master in the world.(O. Henry , Maupassant, Chekhov);William Sydney Porter was born in Greenboro, North Carolina. His father was a physician. When William was three, his mother died, and he was raised by his parental grandmother and paternal aunt. William was an avid reader, but at the age of fifteen he left school, and then worked in a drug store and on a Texas ranch. He continued to Houston, where he had a number of jobs, including accountant,land board clerk, reporter. In 1887 he married Athol Estes Roach; they had a daughter and a son. ;In 1894 cash was found to have gone missing from the First National Bank in Austin, where Porter had worked as a bank teller. When he was called back to Austin to stand trial, Porter fled to Honduras to avoid trial. After hearing news that his wife was dying, he returned to Austin in 1897 . He was convicted of embezzling money, although there has been much debate over his actual guilt. Porter entered a penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio. While in prison, Porter started to write short stories to earn money to support his daughter Margaret. His first work, Whistling Dicks Christmas Stocking (1899), appeared in McClures Magazine. The stories of adventure in the U.S. Southwest and in Central America gained an immediately success among readers. ;1894年，欧·亨利花250美元买下了奥斯汀的一家周刊，将它更名为《滚石》（也可以说他创办了《滚石》杂志），使它成为一份幽默杂志。编辑《滚石》一年后的1895年4月，它完全失败了，于是他将这份杂志物归了原主。接着，他们搬到了休斯顿 。1896年2月，他受到了盗用公款的起诉，被传受审并被暂时关押。他的岳父将他保释出狱。本来他的案情并不严重，但他