O.Henry

O.HenryO.Henry 第一张幻灯片 O.Henry was born on September 11, 1862, and died on June 5, 1910. 第二张幻灯片 , Brief Introduction , Writing Skills,Contribution , Famous Works 第三张幻灯片 Brief introduction Pen name: O.Henry Another pen name: Olivier Henry His primitive name: ...

O.Henry 第一张幻灯片 O.Henry was born on September 11, 1862, and died on June 5, 1910. 第二张幻灯片 , Brief Introduction , Writing Skills,Contribution , Famous Works 第三张幻灯片 Brief introduction Pen name: O.Henry Another pen name: Olivier Henry His primitive name: Williams Sydney Porte 原名:威廉姆斯?西德尼?波特第四张幻灯片 , He was born on September 11, 1862, in Greensboro, 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. 第五张幻灯片 , 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. 第九张幻灯片 Famous work 第六张幻灯片 , 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 Dick's Christmas Stocking' (1899), appeared in McClure's Magazine. The stories of adventure in the U.S. Southwest and in Central America gained an immediately success among readers. 第七张幻灯片 , 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. 第八张幻灯片 Writing Features, Contribution • 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”. Henry's short stories are well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist ending. • 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)

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