Презентация, доклад по английскому языку О'Генри

North Carolina. His father, Algernon Sidney Porter, was a physician. When William was three, his mother died, and he was raised by his grandmother and aunt.

fifteen he left school, and then worked in a drug store and on a Texas ranch. He moved to Houston, where he had a number of jobs, including that of bank clerk. After moving to Austin, Texas, in 1882, he married.

Stone”. When the weekly failed, he worked as a reporter and columnist. In 1897 he was convicted of embezzling (был обвинен в растрате) money, although there has been much debate (споры)over his actual guilt(вина). In 1898 he was imprisoned at Columbus, Ohio.

1899.
Porter emerged from the prison (освободился)in 1901 and changed his name to O. Henry.

While in prison O. Henry started to write short stories to earn money to support his daughter Margaret.

he dropped something his aunt used to say “O, Henry!”
He took his name from the name of the prison in Ohio: Ohio Penitentiary —
O. Henry

O. Henry's last years were shadowed by ill health and financial problems.
O. Henry died on June 5, 1910, in New York.