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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 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. O. Henry moved to New York City in 1902 , he wrote a story a week for the New York World, also publishing in other magazines. Henry’s first collection, Cabbage and Kings(《白菜与国王》), appeared in 1904. After that, he started a lot of creation. In New York, because a lot of excellent work published, he won fame and money. He was not only extravagant, but gambling, excessive drinking. Tired of writing and living in unrestrained made his body seriously damaged. O.Henry remarried in 1907. Unfortunately, there is no happiness for him.He died of Cirrhosis（肝硬化）on June 5, 1910.Then,he was only 48 years old. The main characters Story