Short Story Author Notes. Name: William Sydney Porter (O. Henry). Dates: 1862-
1910. Life: born in North Carolina moved to Texas as a young man worked at ...
Short Story Author Notes Name: William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) Dates: 1862-1910 Life: born in North Carolina moved to Texas as a young man worked at many diff. jobs: ranch hand, banker, newspaperman accused of stealing $$$ from bank when he was a banker left country and went to Honduras to hide out his wife became ill, so he came back to TX turned himself in to police after she died; served 5 years in prison NO formal education wrote short stories and sent them to magazines from prison took his pseudonym (pseudo=false; nym=name) from one of the guards moved to NYC when released from prison he wrote aobut real people-the pulse and rhythm of NYC Famous Works: "The Gift of the Magi" Ransom of Red Chief "Mammon
