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summary writer's thoughts and feelings. Choose one of the paragraphs about O. Henry's story that is NOT neutral. Underline the words and phrases that seem to show the writer's thoughts and feelings. How many words did you underline? who has an idea that is​

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O. Henry, pseudonym of William Sydney Porter, original name William Sidney Porter, (born September 11, 1862, Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.—died June 5, 1910, New York, New York), American short-story writer whose tales romanticized the commonplace—in particular the life of ordinary people in New York City. His stories expressed the effect of coincidence on character through humour, grim or ironic, and often had surprise endings, a device that became identified with his name and cost him critical favour when its vogue had passed.

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Born: September 11, 1862 Greensboro North Carolina

Died: June 5, 1910 (aged 47) New York City New York

Notable Works: “Heart of the West” “Houston Post, Postscripts” “Letters to Lithopolis” “O. Henry Encore” “O. Henryana” “Roads of Destiny” “Sixes and Sevens” “Strictly Business” “The Four Million” “The Furnished Room” “The Gift of the Magi” “The Last Leaf” “The Ransom of Red Chief” “The Trimmed Lamp” “The Voice of the City” “Waifs and Strays” “Whirligigs”

Movement / Style: local colour

Porter attended a school taught by his aunt, then clerked in his uncle’s drugstore. In 1882 he went to Texas, where he worked on a ranch, in a general land office, and later as teller in the First National Bank in Austin. He began writing sketches at about the time of his marriage to Athol Estes in 1887, and in 1894 he started a humorous weekly, The Rolling Stone. When that venture failed, Porter joined the Houston Post as reporter, columnist, and occasional cartoonist.

In February 1896 he was indicted for embezzlement of bank funds. Friends aided his flight to Honduras. News of his wife’s fatal illness, however, took him back to Austin, and lenient authorities did not press his case until after her death. When convicted, Porter received the lightest sentence possible, and in 1898 he entered the penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio; his sentence of five years was shortened to three years and three months for good behaviour. As night druggist in the prison hospital, he could write to earn money for support of his daughter Margaret. His stories of adventure in the southwest U.S. and Central America were immediately popular with magazine readers, and when he emerged from prison W.S. Porter had become O. Henry.

Watch the dramatic irony unfold in a film adaptation of O. Henry's classic short story “The Gift of the Magi”

Watch the dramatic irony unfold in a film adaptation of O. Henry's classic short story “The Gift of the Magi”

This 1980 dramatization of O. Henry's classic short story “The Gift of the Magi” demonstrates the author's mastery of dramatic irony.

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In 1902 O. Henry arrived in New York—his “Bagdad on the Subway.” From December 1903 to January 1906 he produced a story a week for the New York Sunday World magazine and also wrote for other magazines. His first book, Cabbages and Kings (1904), depicted fantastic characters against exotic Honduran backgrounds. Both The Four Million (1906) and The Trimmed Lamp (1907) explored the lives of the multitude of New York in their daily routines and searchings for romance and adventure, and the former contained the widely popular story “The Gift of the Magi.” Heart of the West (1907) presented accurate and fascinating tales of the Texas range.

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Then in rapid succession came The Voice of the City (1908), The Gentle Grafter (1908), Roads of Destiny (1909), Options (1909), Strictly Business (1910), and Whirligigs (1910). Whirligigs contains perhaps Porter’s funniest story, “The Ransom of Red Chief.”

Despite his popularity, O. Henry’s final years were marred by ill health, a desperate financial struggle, and alcoholism. A second marriage in 1907 was unhappy. After his death three more collected volumes appeared: Sixes and Sevens (1911), Rolling Stones (1912), and Waifs and Strays (1917). Later seven fugitive stories and poems, O. Henryana (1920), Letters to Lithopolis (1922), and two collections of his early work on the Houston Post, Postscripts (1923) and O. Henry Encore (1939), were published. Foreign translations and adaptations for other art forms, including films and television, attest his universal application and appeal. The O. Henry Prize, given annually to outstanding short stories, was established in his honour in 1919.

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This article was most recently revised and updated by Patricia Bauer.

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