O Henry

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Sarah P

Mrs. Zurkowski/Greens

11/8/2010

·         Real name was William Sydney Porter.

·         Was born on September 11, 1862 and died on June 5, 1910.

·         His stories were known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and endings with a twist.

·         He wrote the most around 1902 when he moved to New York, he wrote 381 stories while there, a story a week.

·         He was a heavy drinker which greatly affected his health and caused him to have an earlier death.

·         He was greatly known for surprise endings.

·         People refer to surprising endings as an “O. Henry ending”

·         Some of his most famous stories are: “The Gift of the Magi”, “The Ransom of Red Chief”, “The Cop and the Anthem”, and “A Retrieved Reformation”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry