Henry became especially famous for twist endings, for creating endearingly humorous characters, and for fabricating new words and instantly understandable malapropisms. Henry Hall, which houses the administrative offices of the University of Texas system. Henry wrote between three hundred and five hundred stories-a count that varies depending on which of his works are considered “stories.” In an ironic denouement that surely would have astounded the author (who hid knowledge of his conviction from his readers until the day he died), the Austin courthouse in which he was convicted is now O.
Henry.” During the decade after he was released from prison in 1901, until his death in 1910, the newly reformed O. (Some of his more supportive biographers contend that the only crime he committed was sloppy and informal bookkeeping.)ĭuring his exile and subsequent three-year incarceration, he wrote his first stories and, through an intermediary, placed a number of them in magazines under various pen names, particularly as “O. “I did more reading between my thirteenth and nineteenth years,” he wrote, “than I have ever done in all the years since, and my taste at the time was much better than it is now, for I read nothing but the classics.” This literary background proved valuable when, as a man in his late thirties, he was imprisoned in a Ohio federal penitentiary in 1898-after fleeing to Honduras as a fugitive-on a charge of embezzling from the bank in Austin, Texas, where he had been an employee. Web store price: $19.50Although William Sidney Porter had very little schooling, he was a voracious reader as a teenager. The 50 Funniest American Writers*: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion
The 50 Funniest American Writers: Who made the list? ( Reader’s Almanac)Īndy Borowitz’s marketing copy for The Library of America: “Does being funny get you girls?” ( Reader’s Almanac)
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