欧亨利的英文简介

　　O Henry (1825-1911), also translated Austrian Henry, formerly known as William Sidney Porter, American short novelist, founder of the American modern short story, its main works are "Maggie's gift "," Police and hymn "," last leaf "," twenty years later "and so on.

　　September 11, 1862, Henry Henry was born in the United States North Carolina Greensboro, has worked as a bank clerk, pharmacists and so on. In February 1896, Ou Henry was imprisoned for allegations of misappropriation of public funds and fled to Honduras. In 1898 again in prison, began to publish works. In 1902, Henry Henry moved to New York to become a professional writer. On June 5, 1910, O Henry died of liver cirrhosis in New York. Ou Henry and Chekhov and Maupassan tied the world's three major short stories, has been criticized as the Manhattan laurel prose writer and the father of modern American short stories, his works are "American life encyclopedia" reputation.

　　September 11, 1862, Henry Henry was born in the United States North Carolina Greensboro, formerly known as William Sidney Porter.

　　In 1865, when Henry Henry was three years old, his mother died of tuberculosis. In the same year, he and his father moved to his grandmother's house to live, and he was sent to a private school run by his brother. He was later raised by his grandmother and aunt, and his aunt inspired his love for literature.

　　In 1876, Henry Henry graduated from aunt's private school. Then he went to high school to study, but was forced to drop out of school in 1877, to his uncle's pharmacy for five years apprentice. Juvenile Henry Henry likes to paint, and quite talent, he was young when they wanted to be a painter.

　　In March 1882, a doctor named James K. Hall of Greensboro saw that Henry Henry was in a bad condition and took him to a sheep farm in Lassalle County, Texas. Henry Henry liked the life of the western ranch, where he lived for two years. He sometimes helps to do the shepherd, the chef, the baby caregiver, and learn from some immigrants for some time in Spanish and German.

　　In 1884, Henry Henry came to Austin, living in a fellow home, and in Austin to find a job. Henry Henry has changed the living conditions of the poor by singers, dramatists, pharmacists, draftsmen, journalists and tellers. Western life inspired his humorous cells, and became an important material for his later short stories. He changed his ambition at the age of 21 and decided to become a writer.

　　In 1887, Henry Henry and Aosol Estes (married to Aso Porter) married, the same year in the "Detroit free press and real" published works.

　　In 1891, Henry Henry came to Austin First National Bank as a cashier.

　　In 1894, Henry Henry spent $ 250 to buy Austin's weekly magazine, renamed it "Rolling Stone", making it a humorous magazine. He is both editors and publishers, write their own articles, painting their own. In October the same year, the federal bank inspector found that the account of Europe Henry had problems, he had to resign.

　　In April 1895, a year after the editor of the Rolling Stones, the magazine failed completely, so that Henry Henry returned the magazine to the original. Then they moved to Houston, where Henry Henry went to the "Houston Post" as a journalist and columnist.

　　In February 1896, Euro Henry was prosecuted for misappropriation of public funds, passed the trial and was temporarily held. His father-in-law will be released from prison. Originally, Henry Henry's case was not serious, but he fled to New Orleans on the day before the summons (July 7, 1896) and then fled to Honduras. He spent several months at the hotel in Tegucigalpa. He learned to help him in his early years, and he began writing novels "cabbage and kings" in Honduras.

　　In February 1897, O Henry was informed that his wife suffering from tuberculosis was in critical condition and returned to Austin. He was arrested immediately after returning home, but soon again by father-in-law released from prison. On July 25, his wife, Aso Porter, died of tuberculosis.

　　In February 1898, Ou Henry was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison. On 25 March, he commenced his sentence in federal prison in Columbus, Ohio. During his sentence, O. Henry was a prisoner, and in order to maintain his daughter and his life, and for her daughter to school, he began to write short stories. In the same year, O Henry changed his name from William Sidney Porter to William Sydney Poter.

　　In December 1899, he published his short story "The Whistle King Dick's Christmas Socks" in the "Macquarie" magazine's Christmas number with "O Henry" as the pseudonym. He sent the novel to his friend in New Orleans, and his friend was forwarded to the magazine. Since then, his pen name began to pay attention to the reader.

　　In 1901, three years and three months later, Ou Henry was released in prison for good performance. On July 24, he reunited with her daughter in Pittsburgh.

　　In 1902, Henry Henry moved to New York, became a professional writer, created hundreds of excellent short stories. In New York, due to the publication of a large number of masterpieces, he fame and fortune, and sometimes by journalists. But he not only squandered, but gambling, and infected with his father's abuse of alcoholism. The indulgence of writing and the incompetence of life made his body severely damaged.

　　In 1904, Henry Henry published the only novel in his life "cabbage and kings", which is a loose structure of political satire, sometimes also regarded as short stories.

　　In 1906, Euro Henry published a short story collection of "four million".

　　In 1908 he divorced his second wife, Sarah Lindsay Coleman. His economic situation began to bad, in order to alleviate the pressure of life, he had to quickly create novels to pay royalties, which also led to the quality of his works uneven. He often drinks six days a week, gambling, the seventh day to spend a day to write a short story, and then to the magazine published. In the same year, he published the short story collection "City Voice" and "the last leaf".

　　In 1909, Henry Henry published a short story collection "The Road to Destiny".

　　In 1910, Ou Henry created the "red hair chiefs ransom". On June 3, Henry Henry fell ill in writing his last short story "Dream" in his life. On June 5, Henry Henry died of cirrhosis. His funeral was held in New York, where he was buried in Asheville, North Carolina.