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O. Henry presented by 杨柳(主讲) 胡德成 杨滔 张天佑 汤文茂 谢华锋 O. Henry (1862-1910) was a prolific American short-story writer, a master of surprise endings, who wrote about the life of ordinary people in New York City. A twist of plot, which turns on an ironic or coincidental circumstance, is typical of O. Henrys stories. O. Henry is the pen name of William Sydney Porter. He is one of the three leading short story writers. Chekhov契诃夫(Anton Pavlovich，1860-1904，俄国剧作家 、短篇小说家) Maupassant莫泊桑 (Henri RenМ Albert Guy de，1850-1893，法国短篇小说家) In 1862 O. Henry was born in Greensboro, North Carolina.美国北卡罗来纳州 In 1865, when he was three, his mother died, and he was raised by his grandmother and aunt. As a child, Porter was always reading, everything from classics to dime novels, his favorite work was One Thousand and One Nights. critical realism Maupassant The Man in a Case A Chameleon On July 1, 1887, Porter eloped with Athol and got married. Athol encouraged her husband to pursue his writing. Athol gave birth to a son in 1888, who died hours after birth, and then a daughter, Margaret Worth Porter, in September 1889. His wife died on July 25, 1897 from tubercu’losis. In 1894 he started a humorous weekly The Rolling Stone. When the weekly failed, he joined the Houston Post as a reporter and columnist. In 1897 he was convicted of embezzling money and sentenced to five years in prison. While in prison Porter started to write short stories to support his daughter Margaret. Porter was released on July 24, 1901, for good behavior after serving three years. Porters most prolific writing period started in 1902, when he moved to New York City to be near his publishers. While there, he wrote 381 short stories. He wrote a story a week for over a year for the New York World Sunday Magazine. He married Sara Lindsay Coleman in 1907, but the marriage was not happy, and they separated a year later. O. Henrys last years were shadowed by alcoholism, ill health, and financial problems. He died of cir