O.Henry

• O. Henry is the pen name for William Sydney Porter.
• He was bourn in Greenboro North Carolina.
• After he was fifteen he lived in Texas for his early life.
• However trouble with the law made him relocate to Honduras.
• After 3 years in Honduras he returned and was arrested.
• While in jail he started writing to make money for his daughter.
• In 1902 he moved to New York City.
• He wrote many published stories about New York life.
• He was an alcoholic, sometimes drinking two quarts of wiskey daily.
• In 1910 he died of Cirrhosis in the Liver. 
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